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Thursday, 1 October 2026

Villages for the Franco-Prussian War - Part 12: The Final Alsace house

This is the sixth and final building in this series.








Compared to the last two chocolate box houses, this is rather simple and plain. The addition of some pent roofs (mainly to use up the last bits of roofing material), the fence and the hedge helps to lift what was otherwise a rather dull model. 

I also completed another couple of garden walls to go with the FPW buildings.


Now, all six Alsace buildings formed into a number of village configurations.













And, just for Aly, a sort of re-creation of the charge of Michel's cuirassiers in the streets of Morsbronn on 6 August 1870.




And finally the scene above rendered as a painting in the style of a painter famed for his FPW painting


In truth I am quite pleased that is the final of one of the series. Over the last three months I have made 20 buildings in a row, 23 if I include the three buildings that make up the Schirlenhof Inn, and I am suffering from building fatigue, so the builder's yard will be closed for a while. I need to move on to something else...how fortunate that something has come along...