Quarter Scale Coaching Inn

I'm making more progress -- slowly -- and am thisclose to having the front ready to glue on to the first Butterwick House. But the last few panels needed some adjustment, so more on that in a future post. Instead I thought I'd give a first look at the coffee room, as I'm making pretty good progress on it. I got the Petworth Miniatures gaming table "dressed," finally, including a sandwich from Medieval Miniatures and a whiskey set from Stewart Dollhouse. The sandwich was invented when the Earl of Sandwich was hungry but didn't want to leave the gaming table and asked that meat between two pieces of bread be brought to him, so it was fun to slip that little anecdote into my scene. The secretary is from Victoria Miniland and it's stocked with books from kenna_gal on eBay. There are more of them in the bookshelves on either side of the fireplace (another from Herdwick Landscapes). Would a coaching inn have had that many books? Possibly not, bu...

I haven't posted in a while because I haven't really completed anything lately. I am still working away on both Butterwick Houses, but I thought I would at least post some pictures of work in progress. One of the tricky things with these houses has been figuring out my plan to build them. The reason for this is that they will eventually be joined in some fashion -- their balconies will connect to form the gallery. The bottom part of them needs to be in a stone finish, and I couldn't put the lower windows in until the stone finish was done around them. But the stone finish couldn't be completed until the upstairs was more complete and I attached the balconies. Add to this a whole lot of wallpaper and details which means I really need to work on the rooms from the bottom up without the upper floor in place for each room, and it became a real conundrum. Ultimately what I decided to do was to do part of the front stone, particularly around the windows. I'll then ha...