1:48 Scale Scratchbuilt House

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Here is a typical late 19th century farm or ranch house, still inhabitable but in serious need of more whitewash and new roofing. I designed the model in 2-D CAD following typical construction practices and a very common basic floorplan.

The siding and trim art are from a modified photo of some boards. The roofing is from strips matte photo paper I ran through a custom corrugating tool.

The house consists of three kinds of paper. Every facet of the model is truly three dimensional; no "fool the eye" tricks. I custom cut and assembled all doors and windows. The only non-paper items are six pieces of wood to support the porch roof, a length of brass tubing for the smokejack, brass escutcheon pin doorknobs, and some kind of clear plastic window glazing.

Weathering is from powdered pastel chalks.

Russ