The farm comprises of both a farm house and a small yard separated by a railway line. The farm buildings include a Wills SS30 barn kit that has been improved with a layer of Polyfilla fine surface render.
Below is the farmhouse, from a resin kit from Martin Mueller.
This is the wall that surrounds the farmhouse, its tatty appearance is due to the fact that it is recycled from a previous layout. A coat of acrylic dark earth and a green wash are needed. The farmhouse drops straight into the space on the board.
This is the wood pile for the farmhouse (above), it was incredibly tedious to make from laser-cut wood
The farm is the most noticeable feature of the layout and comprises of buildings commonly found in Oberfranken
The earth celler.
Whilst looking around an old farm we found an odd feature found beside the farmhouse, it was a small stone hut built into the side of the hill. It was the entrance to a cold store or 'Erdkeller' for the 18th century farm, although farmhouse had a basement it also had a separate earth cellar.
In terms of room height and shape, it penetrates far less deeply into the ground, only two steps lead down to the brick entrance. The quarry stone vault of the cellar is also completely covered with soil and potatoes are stored here over the winter - dark, cool, but frost-free.
There were a couple of other similar garden cellars in the village, one was not built into the side of a hill, instead merely cut into the farm garden and covered with the displaced soil.
This is the completed model after weathering and a layer of dust
Never seen this modelled but easy to do.
There is also a farm cottage and its garden
The chicken coop
These images are the originals on a previous layout
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