The house

 

After 1950, there was a dire need for housing throughout Germany, the detached house designed by the VEB district construction company Bau Meiningen goes back to the designs of the civil engineer Reinhard Blumenstein.

The outer mass of the single-family house amounts to about 8.84 m to 9.0 m, as a matter of expediency, prefabricated panels were often the preferred method of material which best suited a standardisded design – but there were regularly GDR-type deviations in the method of the construction, this house was planned according to variant for up to 4-6 people.

Models are available but most lack the essential utility of the original design other than the new Busch and recent Faller offerings. Below is the Faller 130223 but the windows have an exterior architrave uncommon in the original design.

 The windows have been replaced by those from the Faller 130222, the outer shell was repainted with Heki 6600 concrete textured paint, the roof sprayed red oxide and carefully weathered with repated washes of Humbrol acrylic dark earth. The last wash will be applied to match the dirt on the prototype image, finally, interior details have been added to complete the illusion of a family home.

 

 

 

After weathering 

On the layout there is a small house for the farmworker, it has a couple of fruit trees, vegetable garden and chicken coop.

Although unfinished, the result will be acceptable

 

 

I remember that in my childhood, chickens (and other domestic birds) were bustling around in every village. The owners of the poultry seemed to have no concern for their safety at all. A constant image was the birds taking carelessly walks along the road running through the village buildings. And this sometimes ended in a tragic accident under the wheels of a car