Thanks for your posts boys.
As mentioned, the base was starting to look flat and boring, so I decided to put the two rendered buildings on a higher level, looking down on the village square. I used a thick piece of polystyrene for this. Where I can, I prefer to build any ground up, rather than dig into stuff. No mess or dust -
Incorporating a higher level gave me a nice sloping road running down into the square - bonus!
I've placed a building on to get a better idea as to what's what.
That flying pavement is starting to annoy me!
Here's a closer look at the setup. I made the two set of steps out of scrap stuff.
Note the up and down, all over the place tiles and paviours....Luuuurvely. I added small wall up stands with stone cappings to the raised areas, then gave them all a grey wash to highlight the 'joints'
Cheers.
Ron