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    Figures 293-295: Decals. There are decals at some white parts of the sheet as well. They are white texts to be applied on the black metal structure. You use the printing as a guide for their location. Same goes for installation of the yellow lines. Note you can select the route among the available options. This is all for now. Thanks for watching!
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    My hands are shaking 😄. This is the first time I have ever done a sticker work at this level of precision. Figures 288-291: These yellow lines are provided as elastic stickers, not decals (thanks God). They are in 1.5mm and 0.5mm thickness. From the back of the sheet I read it is a brand called Avery Dennison, in case anyone wants to find out more about them. Overall it went wery well and I am kind of proud of the work
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    Figures 283-287: Next sequence of photos show the progress of aligning the photo etched parts, painting and gluing using the order in the instruction manual, with one exception: According to the instructions, starting from the rightmost end, you should first glue the upper panel and then slide the lower panel towards under the extrusion of the upper panel (i.e. the lower panel goes around 1.5mm underneath the upper panel). This does not always work. I tried it and especially with super glue, it caused a lot of problems, such paint strip off etc. Instead I glued the lower panel first and upper panel after it and it worked just fine. Color is Vallejo Steel Blue (see photo). I used airbrush.
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    Figure 282: Outer walls on the sheet. I put the part numbers on the back side before removing them so that I am not making any mistake during assembly. Some of them look quite same, yet they are not.
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    Figures 279-281: Glasses for the fixed windows, i.e. they don't open. They are the ones narrower than the others. Note also the wooden decorations which will be visible in the corridor side. Some trimming of the acetate was necessary here and there.
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    Figures 277-278: 3x0,5mm lime strips around the window frames. This side will be the inner wall of the corridor side so let's see what kind of wall sturcure will come on top of them. Used the plan sheet for measurements.
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    BUILD DAYS 27-28 / 5 hrs / (TOTAL: 76 hrs) Next in the line is construction of corridor side outer wall. The wagon structure will rest aside for a while. Figure 272: We start with photo etched the nickel panels, which will be glued on the plywood structure. In the photo you see how they came out of the box, even though they should be totally flat. When I press on them with my hand they bounce back to the same shape! I don't want to use tools to bend them as I am afraid of kinking them. I just hope they will remain flat enough when glued on the plywood. There will be also other components like wooden strips and another layer of photo etched panels to enforce the structure, so hopes are high. Figures 273-276: Aligning the window openings of the nickel sheet with that of the plywood. Nickel should form a thin frame of about 1mm wide from the wooden window.
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    Thank you all for the nice and encouraging comments!
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    BUILD DAY 26 / 1 hr / (TOTAL: 71 hrs) Figures 266-271: Construction on both ends of the wagons. Note the doors I made earlier. After this, the wagon structure will rest aside for a long time while the outer walls are being prepared. Lets see. Thanks for watching!
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    Figures 261-265: Folding chairs to be mounted on several locations on the wagon walls. They are designed to allow to move the seat up and down freely, though when you install them in the place you fix them in either closed or open position. There are altogether 7 of them. Some parts need painting, some paper decoration.
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    Figures 257-260: Doors opening to the corridor from either end of the wagon. These are the first ones to build having glass window. Glasses are made of acetate, supplied cut ready to size. I used superglue to glue the acetate to the plywood. Photos show one of the two doors.
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    BUILD DAY 25 / 4 hr / (TOTAL: 70 hrs) Figures 254-256: Boiler painted and installed it its dark room.
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    Figure 253: End of the first book! But looking at the material left, I feel the work (or fun!) is nowhere near half.
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    BUILD DAY 24 / 1 hr / (TOTAL: 66 hrs) Installation of window side wash basins and the common W-C. Figures 250-252:
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    Figures 246-249: Today I spent some time to install the furniture in the compartments. The train is starting to get the soul now!
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    Yes that might be a good idea also for protecting them.
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    Figure 245: Divans and beds ready. Do you have the same feeling that the divans look more like coffins at this stage 😃? Anyway I am sure they'll look fine when installed in the compartment with headrests and backrests 🙂. That's all for today. Thanks for watching!
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    Figure 244: Two sofas transformed into open beds. Looking cute. One of those moments that make me feel more like I am building a doll-house 🤣.
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    Figure 243: Seats and backrests ready.
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    Figure 242: They will look about like this when installed.
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    Figure 241-242: The bed structure. Again covered with paper. The same are used also for the two aforementioned open bed versions, which will come later. Figure 243: The front face of the bed structure has reactangular grooves. Note in the photo, I went over them with a toothpick to make them visible.
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    Divans with backrests. Figure 233: Naturally there are 10 divans, one per compartment. In this model, 8 of them are provided as daytime divan and 2 of them as transformed into beds. It is up to you in which compartments you place them. Figure 234: Even though the paper parts are rectangular, I trimmed the edges a bit in order to get the corner folds smoother. It also helps to mark the fold lines on the back side of the paper using a pencil. Figure 235: For a proper final shape, the paper will be folded in the order as below: 1-2-3-4 Figure 236-238: Photos showing the progress. This is the seat. Figure 239-240: Backrest. Exactly the same process as the seats. Note the long edge on the right side of the photo is slightly thicker than the one on the left side. That's the lumbar support, which should face down when installed on the wall. That's why I marked the back of it with an arrow, indicating the upward direction.
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    Figure 232: All the stools and armrests complete, waiting to be installed in place.
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    Construction of the armrests. Two per sofa, i.e. per compartment. Figure 229: Papers are labelled on the sheet. Figure 230: Plastic parts and papers ready. Note in the photo above (Figure 229), that the paper must be glued in the direction of the thin black arrow printed above the pieces. I transferred the arrows to the back of the papers to ensure a correct installation. Figure 231: First armrest ready. 19 to go.
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    BUILD DAY 23 / 3 hrs / (TOTAL: 65 hrs) Today I had a lot of fun with papers building the compartment furnitures: Stools, divans, beds, armrests and backrests. Stools: One per compartment. They are made of metal, as opposed to plastic in the instruction manual. They look very nice and feel heavy in the hand. The instructions tell to paint them in black but I opted to leave them as they are, in order to expose the beautiful metal structure visible. Figure 224: 10 stools and their upholstery from paper. Figure 225: Small slices in the corners for folding over nicely. Figure 226: Brush an even layer of white stationary glue. Figure 227: Tip the stool over the center of the glued paper. Figure 228: Turn it over and fold the sides. There you go. Now repeat the steps for the remaining 9 stools

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