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Living Room Interior (35646) 1:35 MiniArt via Creative Models Ltd Living room, lounge, sitting room. Call it what you want, but it’s the place where we spend most of our awake time when we’re home, and possibly a growing amount of sleeping time as we get older too. Unless you’re some kind of recluse or an unusual religious sect, you’ll have furniture in that room too, in order to make your life comfortable. That’s where this set comes in. It’s not modern furniture of course, but more suitable for the 1930s-50s before technology really took over, dominating our living spaces with the goggle-box. The Kit Arriving in a figure-shaped end-opening box with a painting of the finished contents on the front, and a painting guide on the rear, there are eight sprues of grey styrene, a clear sprue, small decal sheet and instruction booklet inside. The instructions also have sixteen paintings and a couple of rugs printed on the inside back page, which you can cut out and insert into the frames, and for the rugs, lay on the floor after running a suitably coloured pen or brush around the edges to hide the white paper. The instructions show how to build each of the pieces of furniture, starting with the grandfather clock, which has a detailed base, the weights and pendulum moulded into the rear of the carcass, and a decorated door that includes two pieces of glazing, one for the decal on the clock face, the other for the large window on the pendulum. A floor-standing lamp is inserted into a weighted base with five candle-bulbs under a recurved shade, then the sitting room is given seats in the shape of two single seats and a two-seat sofa, which have the traditional latticework under the cushions, separate backs, sides, and extra centre feet on the sofa. A wind-up gramophone is built from four decorative sides and the top, which includes the platter and winding handle, completed by making up a two-part horn-shaped speaker, which you can perch on the table, which has four separate legs, or another table with a set of draws under the top, which are decorative in this instance. The empty table can also be the repository for the two-part radio that’s included, after which you have three picture frames, one oval, one square and one oblong, with a choice of pictures to place in each one. Markings The three decals are intended for the clock, the radio dial, and the badge on the front of the gramophone, after which you can choose to paint the furniture any way you want to. There are suggestions on the back of the box however in case your muse is absent, and the colours are given in the codes of Vallejo, Mr.Color, AK Real Color, Mission Models, AMMO, and Tamiya, plus a swatch showing the colour, and its name at the right edge of the table. Decals are well-printed in good registration, sharpness and colour density, with a thin matt carrier film cut close to the printed areas. Conclusion If you’re a diorama builder these sets are just the job, and would look great regardless of whether the walls of the room have been blown out or not. The paint scheme and level of dust/debris might have to vary a little of course. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of