I am gradually building a French army under FoG-R for the Italian Wars and putting together some scenery to go with it. I finished this group of village houses a few weeks ago but have just got round to photographing it.
They are scratch built out of thick picture mounting card with small rectangles of card stuck on to represent stone blocks and break up the surface. I painted the stonework areas with a mix of PVA and filler to give some more texture and blend it all together. The pantile roof is a plastic moulding from Wills.
I painted them with a mix of relatively cheap acrylic craft paints and Vallejo.
Since they are for FoG-R and it is only the area of the terrain feature that matters, I made an area marker using the rubber backing off an old carpet tile, textured with decorator's caulk, PVA glue and sand and then painted with my usual figure basing colours (starting with a very rough approximation of Humbrol dark earth as colour matched by Dulux as an emulsion).
I plan to make a few more buildings – a barn, maybe a small church and some of the mixed clutter of village/farm life like a water trough, a cart, some chickens…
There is a more detailed description on my blog.
smallitalianwars.blogspot.co.uk