Thanks all for the comments and links. These will be usefull. To Staale : My version od the house is indeed a rather small house (something around 4m wide x 8m long, approximately). It is my 'proof of concept' for the later models :) . I intend to do larger models in additional sets. To Guslaw : The similarity of art/lifestyle is understandable as the vikings did invade/colonised part of what is now russia (as they did with a lot of countries). Viking is in fact not the name of the people but the name of what they did : they went on viking raids to do commerce with, colonize or attack other lands. In some cases , as in France, some clans/tribes were brought in by the local governments to fight off other viking raids, so the culture is one of the most wide spread of the medieval cultures. Evanara