Good luck with your designs! I'm basically in the same boat as you....
realistic details with a reasonable amount of bricks. I have about 4
buildings of the style you are talking about not photographed yet, but
mostly done. One of these days....
For the past 6 months, I have avoided this newsgroup ( lugnet.build.arch ) , on the basis that building things with arches was a bit restrictive, and anyway, I don't have enough arches to do anything interesting. But now, I see that "arch" is short (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.arch)