Let the cutting begin

The first task was to swap the front and back walls of one of the bank buildings that will become the right wing.  First the cutting:

Then the gluing:

Glued from the inside:

Next I needed to cut the steps and knee wall from the fronts of all 3 banks using a Zona saw and bandsaw:

The door cutouts in the center section were done with a Zona saw:

Since I am making the center section taller than the wings, I needed to lengthen the column.   A search of nearly all the pens in my office located a pen barrel that was exactly the right diameter.  I cut off the base and inserted the barrel (white) using another smaller pen barrel (black) inside to strengthen the joint.  I ended up making the columns 1/8" too tall and later had to cut them back.  (better than too short!):