I wanted one more project to keep me busy while waiting on things on the other two. The Izba is a traditional Russian log cabin and dates back hundreds of years. The older ones are made almost exclusively of wood with a wooden foundation and no metal to speak of. Typically small, under 300 sq ft, with round logs but some are squared off logs or even heavy boards. Usually one room, divided by curtains, with a large wood stove for heating, cooking, and even sleeping on.
The round log style at this scale looked a little too much like dowels so I went with a squared off look. I grabbed a few pictures for examples but mine isn't a copy of any particular house. Traditionally the floor is clay and any spaces between the logs is filled with clay as well
The first picture shows a small house or hot house (like a sauna) with squared logs
Detail of a slightly different style with squared logs
and the inside showing the large stove
I used 1/4 square sticks, roughly sanded at the corners to represent squared off logs. 1/4" is roughly 9" in 1:35 scale and I went with 6" by 8" overall so slightly less than a scale 18' by 24'. This would give me an interior size of about 300 sq ft
normally the corners would be notched and interlocked but I just went with simple but joints overlapping each row
here i have started the stacking. the front door started on the second row and the windows will start on the fifth. On the second row up on the left you can see the small piece I glued in at the end to make it looked like the logs are notched and interlocked
and here I added just a touch of filler to the corner piece. I plan to use the wood filler to represent the mud and fill any gaps. Essentially I glued in an oversive piece and cut flush with a razor saw after it dried. When I have the walls all built I will sand it all to length
