Village Church

Lay the two side walls and the back wall flat, engraved side up. Every lancet goes on the same way: sill, vellum, frame, then the little cap. Three on each side wall and one on the back wall. The little caps are all alike, and there are two spares.

Lay the front wall flat, engraved side up, and work up from the bottom. Push the door step's two end tabs into their slots. Lay the doors' vellum with its bottom edge against the step, then set the doors over it, their two bottom tabs in the step's notches. The sign shelf goes over the doors' top tab, its end tabs into the wall. Stand the sign board in the shelf's two outer notches, then press the cornice on over the sign's two top tabs.

Then the rose: its little sill, the round vellum resting on it, the rose frame, and its little cap.

Lay the floor flat. Stand the back wall, with its lancet on, on the floor's back edge so its bottom tabs drop into the notches. Engraved side faces out.

Slide the platform's back tabs into the row of slots across the back wall and hold it level, with its small square opening toward the front. The openings let the light reach the tower.

Slide each side wall in from its side. Three things catch at once: the corner tabs mesh with the back wall, the bottom tabs drop into the floor, and the row of slots near the top takes the platform's side tabs. Work it in a little at a time.

Build the tower on its own first. Push the top plate's tabs into the row of slots near the top of the tower back wall, then slide one tower side wall on. Set the bell in with its engraved face toward the open front, one base tab in that wall's small slot under the belfry opening. Then slide the other tower side wall on: it catches the top plate's tab, the bell's other tab and the back wall's corner pockets. The two tower side walls are mirror images: engraved sides out, the long edge with tabs facing forward.

Lower the whole tower onto the platform over the small square opening, tower back wall toward the back. Its bottom tabs drop into the platform's slots. The front of the tower stays open for now.

Slide the front wall, with everything you dressed on it, straight back into place. It catches everything at once: the side wall corners, the floor, the platform's front tabs, the tower walls' front tabs and the tower top. Press evenly across the whole wall.

Set the left roof panel on with its notched corner at the front, fitting around the tower. The tabs on the front and back walls go up into its slots.

Then the right panel the same way. Its top edge runs on past the ridge and laps over the top of the left panel, so the ridge closes tight with no gap for the light.

Slide the short spire piece (its slot from the top) down over the tall one (its slot from the bottom) to make an X, then set its feet into the X socket on the tower top. Your kit also has a four sided spire: interlock its two ribs the same way, stand them in the four small sockets, then lay the four faces on so their slots take the ribs' tabs. The tops swap anytime.