Mini Modular Numbers 8 and 9 - Grand Emporium and Cafe Corner

The next two - Grand Emporium and Cafe Corner were again worked on at the same time as they were both another couple of corner ones and I'd be trying to re-use the corner techniques from the Palace Cinema that I'd learnt.

For the Grand Emporium I wanted to not use just one single curved piece for the "shop" word so had to use a special approach inside the front of the building that isn't visible from the outside unless you look really close.  The piece I used is quite large so I had to make room for it around it inside - bit of a tricky bit!  Personally I'd love to improve the flags approach on this so may take another look at it soon - I just couldn't work out which little bits to use instead.

I was loving the vibrant yellow colours on the Cafe Corner so wanted to keep the prominence on those.  I also wanted to keep the top 5 windows exactly the same and it took ages to work out what to do behind the angled one to keep it in place - had some fun behind there!  Not many more corner ones to go thankfully - they're a bit of a handful!

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Here are these two lovely corner ones in image form.