Little stable and laundry

I've been working away on multiple buildings, and did finally manage to complete some interiors. In addition to the larger stable, I also have another Petite Properties stable kit that includes a small storage space. I've decided to make it into a laundry and got some fantastic pieces to go into it. Most of them are from Herdwick Landscapes, with the exception of the boiler and shelves, which are Petite Properties, the larger bucket (picked up from eBay at some point, I believe) and the larger washboard, which was from S&D Models.

Strangely enough the most difficult part of this was the horse! After a good amount of success with horse painting in the large stables, I ran into huge issues with the ones I was trying to do for this. Since it is a large, open stall I figured there needed to be some reason why the horse(s) were in here and decided I'd use the mare and foal I'd picked up (again from eBay). Their colors weren't very natural so I decided I'd try to paint them bay.

Every once and awhile I run into issues with certain Petite Properties paints not having the same degree of "stickiness" and I think that was the case here. I didn't prime the horses but I hadn't primed the ones I'd painted in other colors, and didn't have any problems (and later I tried the same paint on a primed horse and it was also not sticking). So what I ended up with was a peeling mare and foal!

Eventually I had to declare them unsalvageable and I instead chose another horse from my set that was depicted wearing a blanket. Its base color was already good for a bay so I just painted the mane and tail black and dry brushed some black on the legs for more realism. I also dry brushed the blanket to make it look a little dirty, and then decided to call it a day on the horses!

 

I'm making good progress on the upstairs of the large stable but as this one was a big kit bash it's involved some trickiness, like installing this Braxton Payne fireplace in a more realistic fashion.

And I did have one big setback...I've spent a goodly amount of time assembling an old Tally-Ho Stagecoach model so that I would have something to put into the carriage house. At the beginning of assembly it looked like it was going to just fit, but then I put the front seat on and, well...

So I've set it aside for now. Once I actually start laying out the buildings I'm thinking there might be opportunity to "park" it somewhere. But now I'm back to trying to find a carriage that will fit inside.