Quarter Scale Coaching Inn

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...

So I had to take a break from mini-ing to use my workspace for another project, and it ended up being longer than I'd thought it was going to be. It's only been in the last week or so that I've gotten back into gear, but I feel like I'm at least making good progress again. I did get the front glued on to the first Butterwick House, and the second is now not far behind. The room that's had the most progress since my last, though, is the dining room, the second floor of that Butterwick House. Not only are the wallpaper ( Mini Minutia ), wainscoting ( Desert Minis ) and the (incredibly difficult) ruched curtains in, but I've also got the table and sideboard dressed, and those were crazy complicated because I wanted to do a proper feast. Strangely, finding plates has been the most difficult bit for all of this, and sadly I can't recall where I got many of them! I could not find the right size for some of them and actually ended up taking the cardboard backin...

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...