Thursday, June 2, 2011

Housing Fit For The Proletariat

 
As Principal Mayor Bajnik of Ivic in Slavikova says "with a bungalow, a skoda and a stack of logs, a man is czar of his own goatfarm".

 Dapol C021 Bungalow

I found a great Alcovian residence in the form of this cheap but effective Dapol Bungalow (#021). I bought one on Ebay and it arrived this morning. A gem! Take out that picture window, add a few shutters, a logpile, a catslide extension to regionalise and ring the changes, and I think a couple could make a very nice Alcovian village when mixed with MiniArt's East European Farm.

Cheers
Mark 

8 comments:

The Angry Lurker said...

I'd live there.

Mark said...

I DO live there!

Mark

Dangerous Brian said...

Leave it as it and it cold work well enough as a home in the suburbs.

@ Mark You Do live there? Ah. Your from the North East Coast of Scotland. A nice little town just outside Aberdeen I bet, full of oil-rig workers and host to a leg of the Highland games once a year. A Haven, you could say.

Am I right?

Eli Arndt said...

Nice one. How does it scale up against the 20mm figs?

-Eli

P.S. What's a catslide extension?

Mark said...

LOL! Further south Brian! A wee model village known for it's industriousness.

Cheers
Mark

Mark said...

Eli!

you'll be telling me next you don't know how to tell a C16th house by the floorboards! Cuh!

http://www.matchatile.co.uk/roof-pictures.html

Cheers
Mark

Eli Arndt said...

Funny thing about those Brit-isms is that I can usually guess at them with some accuracy. A catslide, ended up being exactly what I thought it would be.

It helps that we had some outbuildings with a similar construction and I more than once watched my cats slide down them as well as squirrels, racoons, and even a crow who seemed to be having far too much fun at it (he kept flying back to the top and going down again).

-Eli

Mark said...

Wish we had Racoons. Maybe Alcovia does. Like the Coyu, they escaped from a fur farm and set up colonies in the Shizlak Woods and started spreading from there.

Mark