These are papercraft Z scale 1:220 small-town Britain village structures, including some English Tudor styled architecture building designs, for use in miniature scenes. This is a variant of the recently released alternative scale (N scale, same designs but a bit larger) which I also have available.

They're not the same type of item as my other previous [painting] listings. Up until very recently the designs have been a bit in flux and some of the photos on this listing are not 100% reflective of the current improvements to, or variants of, the designs.

This listing is for a DIGITAL ONLY set of papercraft designs that should be printed by the buyer using a standard inkjet printer and white cardstock paper. NO PHYSICAL ITEM WILL BE SHIPPED TO THOSE ORDERING FROM THIS LISTING - That's why this variant is as cheap as it is and why no shipping fee is present.

Why I made this unexpected set of designs:
I was browsing for print products on Etsy to see what others were creating and realized that the market on Etsy for papercraft buildings was somewhat lacking in substantial, high-quality, and affordable collections - and was mostly devoid of European structures in particular.

It was obvious that there was an underserved niche and I wanted to help fill it. I'd been making plans to do some other print products (art prints, art posters, and printed booklets) anyway so this isn't too much of a stretch beyond that.

I decided to spend a while making a few designs of my own and listing them here, making extensive sets of papercraft content, on the off-chance that sells well.

Here's my first collection of this type - modular English, British Tudor / 16th-17th-century architecture style buildings, houses, shops, plus add-on windows, chimneys, etc, that can be attached in various possible ways to the main paper models. All with photography-based textures. These should look fairly realistic, especially if assembled well. (For the purposes of all of these demo pictures, my assembly of the cardstock and my photography of the resulting scenes was admittedly a bit shoddy. I bet many of you will do better. Sorry about that.)

So these are not 'handmade artworks' like the many original acrylic paintings I'm selling on this platform, they began as digitally textured 3d mesh files that I designed (3d modeled and essentially unfolded, digitally), including tabs added in Photoshop that I then tried using myself and confirmed should make sense and fit together nicely when assembling the paper models.

You can make second variations of each model by mixing and matching and attaching all the smaller extra 'bits' in different ways each time. Just about every piece of geometry has a few alternate texture variants, so that you can really construct an entire town with this package alone, in which every single building is unique.

I've included road and backdrop graphics too.

If this goes at all well I will continue to make many more collections like this and will also make these N scale designs available in other model building scales, including T, Z, and HO scales. I'll be posting those variants very soon. Maybe even O and S, but those larger scales will probably cost more due to the need to print them on a larger-format cardstock like 11x17 or potentially even a bit larger like 13x19.

If you want this item:
You could maybe put it in your cart, maybe buy it after the final update, and ideally post a brief review later? That would be amazing! I'm thrilled and astounded that this idea has already gotten so many views!

Don't want this particular type of item but appreciate the pricing level?:
Try browsing other items on this Etsy shop. If you don't see anything you especially like try bookmarking this shop and returning later. I will be posting dozens - probably well over 60 - additional artworks along with many new print products, here steadily over the course of 2021. Maybe follow on social media to be the first to know when new things arrive, as described below...

Or, alternately, you love this item but think it costs a bit too much?:
Follow my blog posts or follow on social media. I routinely notify followers not only when new artworks are posted but also when everything I sell is discounted. This happens about 6-8 times a year, usually on holidays, and discounts on Etsy often are 10, 15%, 20%, possibly even 25% off ALL my Etsy items! This is when my effective earnings on these items fall noticeably at around a dollar per hour worked (considering that an adequate canvas, paints, shipping supply and listing cost add up to roughly $6.40 on an average original artwork to begin with). I can't price them much lower than 25% off before the pay rate on many items actually goes negative. So they really are extremely underpriced during sales!
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ALSO - if you're curious about my scale miniature product line that is now suddenly in active development - I have set up a new teaser website showcasing these miniature buildings.
http://www.NScaleScenery.com.

Even the sale isn't affordable enough?:
I will be making a line of high-quality art prints, posters, and art books available here in a few months and they will cost less than the original painting items. These will be printed and shipped by myself, checked by hand, with a really high-quality photo printer I've selected and will be saving up for, capable of both genuinely impressive print quality and large format print sizes.

Shipping is the issue?:
I try to ship quickly but during the pandemic, many packages take longer than estimated to arrive and there is rarely much I can do about that. I am also doing my best lately to package every shipment very well to protect items from damage. If the shipping cost is your actual concern, consider the fact that all orders above $35 include free shipping. So as the range of items - original and print - climbs, maybe it won't be too hard to find a list of things you like to hit that target.

Anyway, hope things work out well for you and that you have a good day. :)