A Winter House

I really like making model buildings. I have made a few hundred over the years, both commercially and for my own use. I am not into the finely detailed sort of thing that you might expect on a model railway layout, but I prefer the more rustic structures, with bits falling off them and other damage and lots of junk laying around them.

I had been intending to make a few models and putting them up for sale through the blog, not as a huge money making exercise, but more to keep the creative juices flowing and to have something to do in the evening. So when a friend asked if I would be interested in making some buildings for the Eastern Front in winter, I though yes I would! That level of rustic structure is right up my alley.

This post shows the first of what is likely to be half a dozen buildings. It is a wooden village house, the base is all logs while the gable and the roof are planked timber.  The design brief was that the roof had to be removable and it had to be big enough to fit a 60mm diameter base inside. 

Here it is before it snowed...

And here is after it snowed...

There has obviously been a bit of a thaw recently because much of the snow is gone from the roofs and there are large areas of earth showing trough the snow on the ground.

With the roof removed.

Next up in this series are some rustic outbuildings to go along with this piece.