Old Cardboard (AB#3)

     A Church (obviously)

First off these are really card, not cardboard and were bought at a local shop more than 40 years ago!
The alternatives at the time were generally "Faller" plastic kits, railway models (Airfix and Triang mainly at the time) or make your own.. At the time, the latter alternative wasn't on my agenda  and if you saw my early buildings you'll understand why.
The came in a see-though flat pack and from my pecuniary outlook were very expensive.
They're small, probably 1/87th scale (suitable for 15mms) and are generally of an 18th century central European style and did include some famous buildings if memory serves.
There was one two or three models dependent upon the size of the model(s).
The photographs partially show a ruler for size and an 18th Century figure (a John Ray original -about 32mm tall).
The figure is slightly larger than my own forces and although obviously not in scale with the figure but these buildings were the mainstay of my collection for Seven Years War games with my "30mm" figures.

The church again ( again  a bit obvious)

Here's the photographs:

The tallest building I have

View with ruler -it's on about a 3" square base.

Another larger building (probably based on a real one)

Rear view with ruler - approx 3" square base. 

A shop of some sort

Very small, but perfectly formed

Another, with annoying turrets

Rear and side view

One of my favourites

Rear and side view (dust still in evidence)

Yet another  (bored yet ?)

Extra boring rear and side view

Another great building imo, dust included !

These have some very good ideas for scrath-building

Great as a farmhouse

These models imo are also useful as for painting, there's that much detail on them.

Another townhouse with a damn turret

Note the damage to the gable end top ! (they are a bit delicate)

Most were reinforced with balsa, but not duplicates I'd accidentally bought !

Making anything that looks like a city in a larger scale would occupy a huge area on a table and as I wanted to have a city within a star/Vauban fort (about 5 foot in diameter) a smaller scale was the only way to go. For small villages, three or four building would suffice and occupied enough ground to be an impediment and were much more in keeping with real 18th century battles that these were used for.

The whole ensemble, occupying about a two foot square)

These are neither forgotten or abandoned buildings, as they've been used in many many games, but not for over twenty years iirc. They were however, lost to me and did take a while to find and dust down !

That's it then from me for another week, one in which again I've managed to achieve nothing save for doing this blog!

Thanks for taking the time to visit and I hope you've found something of interest in my museum of curiosities (see last week's comments for  explanation).

As always your comments are both welcomed and appreciated.