After having the bare cardboard sitting on my windowsill for months, in the end I completed a scratchbuilt 28mm town house piece for my 'Dark Nights in Trashburgh' 17th century urban skirmish project. It is mostly made from cardboard, balsa wood, plasticard and texture paste for the walls.
The building (or pair of buildings should I say) is in a sort of dilapidated state, with repairs to the mortar on the walls here and there, but I've come to appreciate it this way.
The barrels in the yard are from a Strelets artillery set, a Warlord WSS artillery sprue, and a Green Stuff World resin set. The cartwheel is also a Strelets plastic one.
I pondered the windows for a long while, and in the end I just made colour printed images of stained glass.
This is the street front, as you can see there is no proper wooden gate to the yard and the side building also has no entrance from this direction.
Inspiration for this building (and most others to come to the city of Trashburgh) comes mostly from Robert Merle's Fortune de France series, lots of vivid descriptions of 16th-17th century city life can be found within.
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