After these experiments with VBCW Villages made out of tin, together with Roo's experiments with "Superquick" buildings, another potential source of "cheep" (really cheap) VBCW buildings - the Kelloggs Village. Produced in 1989 (although it may be that this series was a repro, with the originals dating back to 1948), the Kelloggs Village consists of nine "classic English" card buildings - church, petrol station, thatched cottage, butchers, etc - certainly more than enough for a tabletop VBCW village.
These card buildings (about 1/76 or 1/72 scale) still occasionally appear in the original on Ebay, where they can be remarkably inexpensive. However, scans of the originals (plus photographs of the made buildings themselves) appear on this 'Toys and Stuff' blog and can be downloaded, resized if preferred, and photoshopped as you wish. For those who have already invested in tin, this is an excellent way of adding at least a church at approximately the same scale - for those with larger houses, it is at least a source of inspiration, plans and possibly more. Whichever way you look at it, they'll all be worth more than you paid for them!
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