My buddy Jeff (those who have frequented TMP in the past would have known him as BluebearJeff ) who passed away in 2016 left me several things including a small house that he had built. Very straight forward construction: foam core walls, black cardstock for a shingle roof and unpainted balsa wood for the timber, all on a thin card base:

I used it as a basis to try a couple of materials I had been wanting to play with; I added toweling to the roof for thatch and wood filler to the walls for daub.

Although the daub did not quite work out as well as I had hoped, I am happy with the tatch.

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