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Belgian Buildings in 6mm

Back at Vapnartak one of my purchases was some of Baccus 6mm buildings from their Napoleonic range. I bought the village set, which included four buildings at a cheaper price than if they were bought separately, so they are a good bargain. In recent days I have been able to paint three of them. The reason the fourth building is still unpainted is because, in Blücher built up areas are designated by a square that is slightly bigger than a base width by a base width in size and I havent got enough buildings to cover the base at the moment, so it can wait until I buy more. In my case, my brigade base widths are 3.5 inch, so these building bases are just slightly bigger than that so that units can be accommodated easily. The village set consists of a barn, a small cottage and a church with a graveyard (plus the bigger as yet unpainted Manor House). They all come on their own base, so I used these to hold the buildings in place on the base but to also make them removable. With the base o...