Winter Building Number Three...plus a few extra bits

I have just noticed as I was about to publish that this is post number 1,000. I remember thinking when I hit 950 that the milestone would be on me soon, but that was in September last year...it has taken such a long time to complete that final 50!

The winter building series is progressing well and building number three is done.

This is another peasant house, but perhaps by a more skilled builder who has built it slightly elevated to keep it off the cold ground. It has a bit of a porch with a very roughly built dormer window in the attic and a rough extension added on the opposite end.

Again this is a matchstick build around an MDF shell. This time the matchsticks, ever one of which I have split longitudinally, have been laid horizontally, except for the extension which are vertical.

 

The roof was a tricky build with lots of odd angles. Several hours were spent splitting and gluing matchsticks at odd angles.

 Here then is the 'summer' version of the building.

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Then the 'winter' version with all that snowy goop spread over all the detail that was so carefully glued on and painted.

And the finished item.

Also completed are these three manufactured pieces: the first, the ruin, is from Hovels and the other two are plastic kits by Pegasus. These were already assembled and just needed painting, basing and some snow deposited on them. 

On these last three I wanted a lighter snow effect so all I did was brush some matte varnish over the surface and sprinkle some of the snow over it. To make some areas a slightly thicker I repeated the process with a second irregular coat.

Here things will pause for a while, in part because I am waiting for some materials to arrive and in part because we are about to have a brief change of scenery.