Quarter Scale Coaching Inn

I did indeed manage to finish more rooms today! These were the upper floor of my Hobbler's Loft kit (the stables are on the lower floor). On the left is the servants' hall, which is doing several different duties. The big, wonderful Braxton Payne  fireplace with the Herdwick Landscapes spit allows it to serve as a second kitchen (probably needed quite a bit of the time given how many rooms are serving up food!). It's also where the servants eat, but unlike the rest of the fully set tables, I wanted this to look like just two people had sat down to eat, as it's likely they would be in and out in an establishment such as this, perhaps grabbing a bite between stagecoaches. The big swinging arm with tea kettle is also from Herdwick Landscapes, while the kettle itself is from S&D Models . The cauldron is from  Virtual Dollhouse . I believe all of the bread is from Medieval Miniatures on Etsy, but it's also possible a loaf or two is from Stewart Dollh...

I've been making a lot of progress again, but hadn't really completed anything until today, and I'm excited to share this one as I'm quite chuffed with how it turned out. This is one of the rooms in one of my few non-Petite Properties buildings, a Coaching Inn Arch from Scale Model Buildings . I have to say, it was definitely not as user-friendly as the Petite Properties kits. With those, because they're built with notches and tabs that go together, you can almost figure out how to assemble without the instructions. Yet the instructions are still super detailed, so all in all it goes together easily (even if you are kit-bashing like me!). With this one, however, the front just did not make sense to me and the instructions did not show visually how it had to go. I ended up messaging them through their shop on Etsy and she was very helpful, actually taking down her model and showing me pictures of how it had gone together, and that was enough for me to figure it out...