Log cabin

[ezdays]

Thanks Jim, with 100,000 scale feet I could build a village. .  8 to 10' actual would be way more than I'd need, even if I decided to put in rafters, 12' if I go two stories.

My calculations, assuming an average of 14 to 16" wide log with 2" of chinking, a 20' x 30' cabin would require six courses for a single story and use less that 1,000 linear feet of logs for the frame. Add another 400' for rafters and some waste, 10' actual that is around 1/8" round would more than do the job.

I'm thinking, at N scale, hand-hewn logs would look pretty smooth, even close up.  Even a gouge of 1/2 to 1" deep in the side of a log would be well under one-thousands of an inch, nary detectable with the human eye. The only thing that would show would be the irregular widths of the boards.