White Hart Inn and Guild Hall

[Vermin_King]

Jordan Peacock's coach looks okay in front, but I prefer Dave's Bud Wagon

[missileer]

Is this a scratch build? If not, could you tell me the designer and scale? Either way, it is a nicely built model. Although, I would prefer a lorry deliverying Murphy's Stout.
Thanks,
John

[Vermin_King]

I cobbled this together for this month's Medieval Mayhem topic at Cardboard Warriors. It is done for 28mm miniatures.

To read more about how it came to be, you can follow it here: Coaching Inn - The White Hart | Cardboard Warriors forum

I'd wanted to do a coaching in for some time, and I've collected a number of images from various inns. Only I lost the one that started this mess. There was an inn that sat on top of a slight hill on a curve in the road. I originally saw the wonky building on the right as being mirrored on the left. Then I saw the Totnes Guild Hall and how it sticks out from the other buildings, so I decided to have a Guild Hall on the other end.

I may eventually do other buildings for an inn yard, or most likely not

[missileer]

Thanks for the link. I read your thread with interest. If you decide to make a kit, I would certainly purchase one. I also feel you pain on losing the photo of the other inn. I found the plans of the train station in my home town (circa 1940) that I remembered as a kid, in an old Model Railroad magazine. I saved it so well that I haven't been able to find it for the last 20 years.

[Vermin_King]

It won't be a kit for sell. Each month we do projects on a theme, and those are fixed up into pretty pdf's and pretty cover pictures, with cutfiles. Mike is probably going to be cursing me for this one.

The building on the right, the guild hall and the central structure can either be built separately or as the complex. The building on the right, the Inn, is four pages. The Guildhall is seven, and the Innyard entry is five. He'll probably have it posted by the end of November.

[Don Boose]

Nice work, VK!

Judging from the write up at Cardboard Warriors, this is a free-lance model of a medieval-19th century coaching inn intended for wargaming. Is there any connection with Arthur C. Clarke's Tales from the White Hart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_White_Hart)? Clarke's White Hart was based on London pub called the White Horse.

Don

[Vermin_King]

Not at all. As I was looking at coaching inns, it seemed (without running numbers) that the vast majority were either named White Hart or Red Lion. So I chose White Hart.

I used to have Clarke's autograph, but it came up missing while I was still in college.

[SCEtoAUX]

Would White Hart Inn be on or near White Hart Lane?Audere est Facere

[Vermin_King]

Back when I was on a Shakespeare kick, I made models of the Harvard House and Garrick Inn, Harvard House and Garrick Inn

While I was seeing what other local buildings might be easily converted to wargaming models, I learned a bit about coaching inns, Elizabethan theater and how the early theaters were patterned after inn yards. I'd planned on doing a coaching inn before now, but when we were 6 days into Medieval Mayhem, I decided this would be the time.

I took a lot of images of real inns to get the components for this, and I'm fairly satisfied with how the test build came out. Maybe too satisfied. I think I'll just stick with this build instead of going back and doing a well-greebled one

[sander1942]

Very nice build. Too bad it's not generally available.