Quarter Scale Coaching Inn

 I've been scarce again because while I've been making progress, nothing has been tangibly done...until TODAY. Landscaping for this project first involved prepping the base. I first looked into gluing a bunch of traditional quarter scale lighting drawers together, but it was going to be super expensive to buy that many of them. So I ended up buying two custom monitor risers from The Paper Skiff on Etsy.  These I glued together and then glued the whole unit on top of a dollhouse turntable (I got mine from Manhattan Dollhouse ). It became apparent pretty quickly that I was going to need touchup paint as I made a bit of a mess on the risers while working above them, but the seller from Etsy let me know the paint color so I could buy some for touchups. Once everything was together it was time to drill the holes for wiring. Lacking any better tools I also used the drill to make the channels for the bulk of the wires to fit into. Because of the way I kitbashed the houses, I knew I ...

The first building to be approaching anything close to completion in my project is the Traveller's Rest building. In addition to the coachway that will lead to the yard and other buildings, it has four other rooms: a waiting room, a booking office, a private parlour, and a bedroom. I built the building pretty substantially out of order, in so that I could do the panelling in the easiest manner, and also to wire it for lighted fireplaces from  Herdwick Landscapes . Because of course my first project wasn't ambitious enough, so I needed to do some electrical with it! It's only been in the last couple of weeks that the actual structure has come together. I did the wood floors upstairs relatively early, using hardwood strips from  S. H. Goode , but I needed to get the panelling and fireplace in on the ground floor to understand its footprint in order to do the floor. This I did with  Stacey's Miniature Masonry  flagstones - all of the ground floor rooms in the pro...