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Figures 321-324: Installing the foldable wall seats, prepared earlier. You glue two pieces of wooden strips at the back in order to support them. You can leave as many open or closed (folded up) as you like. I chose to leave one of them open, just to show. Otherwise I bet they had always been folded up while not in use.
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BUILD DAY 31 / 2 hrs / (TOTAL: 83 hrs) Figure 315: Blue plates and pinstripes are in place. Similar work as that of the corridor side carriage and no surprises hence I don't have many photos nor much to tell. Pinstripe trims on an ice cream stick. I have less than 10cm left of the 0.5mm stripes after the work. It was getting scary towards the end. Amati could have put one more line of cut on the sheet (which would not cost them anything). But anyways I survived. Waiting for the Micro Sol decal setters from the mail before I apply the decals.
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Figures 308-311: The toilet windows have to have some degree of opacity. After all it is a toilet, right? In order to achieve this, the instructions recommend to spray matt varnish on them. I tried it on a scrap piece but the result was awful. Instead I rubbed them a few times with fine grade sandpaper. Turned out not too bad.
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BUILD DAY 30 / 3 hrs / (TOTAL: 81 hrs) Continuing with the compartment side of the carriage. The work is pretty much the same as the other side. This has more windows. Figure 301: Nickel parts. They are also curved out of box. Now that I know they won't be visible, I use some force and hammer to flatten them enough. Figure 302: Here they are flat.
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BUILD DAY 29 / 2 hrs / (TOTAL: 78 hrs) Logo, route nameplate, wagon number plate. Figure 296: These are the smallest parts in this kit. They are the hooks for hanging the route nameplate. After removing them from their brass sheet you'll need to trim and file them so that they stay on the wagon smoothly. Figures 297-298: In the two pictures below. Left: Just removed from its sheet. Right: trimmed and filed, ready to use.
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