Hey Publius
great work! would be too much trouble for me - for now. But I wonder... I never used vue - doesn't it have a function to turn things off when you're not working at them? for example when you're trying hard to get the walls textures right, you turn off the tables? Layers, for example?? Either you've got a terribly slow computer, or this program vue is inferior to the program I use... Maya would pull this easily.
Though I've got no idea what the original price for maya would be...
Anyway... respect. I wouldn't work out such a thing so well as you're doing.
I especially like your eighth render... the sunlight falling in into the taberna, drawing the shadows of the chair on the floor... very nice indeed.