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Figures 220-223: Compartment doors opening to the corridor. Also here I chose to leave some of them open, some of them closed. For the open ones I need to glue the hinges as they will be visible, in addition, I paint the door and frame edges to brown (same with the open inter-compartment doors in the post above). Since most of these doors open to a narrow corridor, they cannot be left "half" open otherwise they would block the passage. They need to rest to the wall properly. That's why they have door stoppers. The 1st, 10th and W-C doors don't have door stoppers since there is more space in front of them. A nice detail. That's all for today. Thanks for watching!

Figures 216-219: Intra-compartment doors. There are four of them between 2nd-3rd, 4th-5th, 6th-7th and 8th-9th compartments. 1st and 10th compartments are without any inner connection to another compartment. I decided to install two of them closed and two of them open. I keep the open ones just partially open instead of leaning fully back on the wall. To do this I bend the hinges to a little angle (see last two photos below).

BUILD DAY 22 / 1,5 hrs / (TOTAL: 62 hrs) Figure 214: WC nameplate, apparently written "W-C" back in the days . I painted the whole brass piece in black and then sanded off the surface to leave only the engraved letters colored. Figure 215: Nameplate in place.

Even though I was sceptical, too, about paper decorations at first, I have to say that the print quality of the paper decorations is extremely good and realistic, plus, the real mahogany wooden strips add to the realistic feel. My photos are very close shots, maybe you can get the paper feeling when you look at the big sized photos, but looking at the model with bare eyes from a reasonable distance it is really hard to tell that they are papers. Besides, maybe in the original train the walls were covered with actual wall papers, who knows? Having said that, I would prefer the carpet to be made of fabric instead of paper. I believe it is possible to print them on a fabric.

Figure 213: Doors getting ready one by one. That's all for today. Thanks for watching!

Figure 212: Ventilation grids painted in brown using airbrush, leaving a nice pattern on the nylon cover

Figure 211: Door handles and stoppers to be glued on the doors.

Figure 207: Door parts. Each 3 piece is glued together to form one thick door. So there will be 11 of them, 10 for the compartments and 1 for the WC. These are the ones opening to the corridor. They are distinguishable from the ventilation grills at the bottom. Figure 208: Parts glued together to form 11 doors. Figure 209, 210: Paper decorations cut off and glued on both sides.

BUILD DAY 21 / 2,5 hrs / (TOTAL: 60,5 hrs) Next in the line is construction of the doors. Some of them are false doors (e.g. those of the boiler room, dress cabinet etc) as you may see in Figure 206, but most of them will be actual doors as below: - Compartment doors opening to the corridors, - WC door, - Doors dividing the compartments. Some of these doors will be installed open, some closed. I don't know yet if it is up to the builder to decide, so far I guess I will just follow the plans.

Figure 205: Gauges painted and glued on their place. Figure 206: Corridor wall installed. That's all for today! Thanks for watching!

Figure 204: Accessories on the corridor walls. The square pieces with the concave circular center are door stoppers. They will have matching ones on the doors with a convex circular center. Nice detail.

Figures 202, 203: Corridor inner wall structure and matching paper sheets, then glued. Again I used X-acto knife and a steel ruler for cutting the paper.

BUILD DAY 20 / 4hrs / (TOTAL: 58 hrs) I have spent 4 hours for the inner corridor wall and a few details like the WC wall. Figure 201: Lovely WC wall . The sink will be installed later.

BUILD DAY 19 / 6hrs / (TOTAL: 54 hrs) Back in business after a few weeks of planned absence Today I finished installing the walls of compartments 3, 5, 7 and 9, which are identical to each other. This means compartment #10 and the WC are remaining next. You see at the far end of the first picture below. Figures 199, 200:

Figure 197, 198: Walls with ornaments and headrests in place for compartments #1 and #2. The walls on the window side will be installed later. Same goes for compartment #1's bathroom. The work will then continue for compartments #4, #6, #8 and #10, which are identical to #2. (post edit: #10 is different) Given the headrests have been prepared earlier, overall it takes roughly 1,5 hours per compartment to install these walls to the wagon. This 1,5 hour includes preparing the plywood parts and paper sheets, gluing them, cutting and gluing the wooden strips, gluing the accessories and the headrests in place and finally gluing the walls in their place. That's all for today and thanks for watching! Aydin

BUILD DAY 18 / 3hrs / (TOTAL: 48 hrs) Figure 196: I use this soft roller for ensuring the paper is pressed properly on the surface. I had bought this thing earlier for another project, covering a speaker cabinet with veneer.

A short update on my progress. Figure 194: The wall accessories sorted in cups. Figure 195: Headrests and the wall ornaments installed for compartment #1. Note I also painted the walnut strips in mahogany color, as in instructions. This color surely fits better than walnut here. I had mentioned above that I also bought mahogany strips to use here, however I think the mahogany paint over walnut looks better. So, I am not thinking of using mahogany at the moment.

BUILD DAY 17 / 3hrs / (TOTAL: 45 hrs) Headrests. There are altogether 10 pairs of them, one pair for each compartment. I applied white glue using brush until the last step, where I used superglue to fix the loops to the back. Figures 183-193: Below I am adding several photos showing the process. That's all for now! Thanks for watching!

BUILD DAY 16 / 2 hrs / (TOTAL: 42 hrs) Bathroom cabinets have been put side now and it is time to start building the inner walls. Starting with compartment #1. Figure 178: Here again all pieces must be carefully numbered as they are quite similar yet slightly different at each compartment. Top row: plywood sheets. Bottom row: Matching paper prints. Figure 179: Papers glued. I used white glue all the way, applied using a brush. Figure 180: Paper print has several small marks indicating where the accessories will be glued later. Some of these marks remain under the wood lining, therefore you'll need to mark them on the corresponding spot on the wood strip before gluing them, like in this picture. Figure 181: First wood linings glued. NOTE: These are supplied in walnut. According to the instructions they should be stained in mahogany color. I don't know why Amati did not supply them in mahogany at first place. Cost? Most probably. Or maybe they are not available in mahogany in these sizes (1x1 mm and 0.5x2mm). I first thought of leaving them as walnut but then for the sake of precision I ran to the hobby shop and bought mahogany color and also some mahogany strips. The strips are 0.7x2mm and with a little sanding will fit just fine for 0.5x2mm purpose. For these ones in the photo (as well as the walnut strips on the bathroom doors) and 1x1mm strips I will use the mahogany paint. Figure 182: Walls of compartment #1. Note that some of the horizontal wooden strips exceed the edges by around 1mm. They are needed for corner turns. The walls are put aside for now. Some components, such as the headrests, will be installed before the walls are mounted in their places. By the way there are a lot of "build and put aside for now" in building this kit

Thanks Ken!

Figures 176, 177: Doors installed and the handles have been glued. They are now to be put aside until later. I have cropped the excess of the hinges (i.e. the copper tube sticks) from the bottom in order to stand straight. I will crop the excess on the upper parts after I have installed them in their place.

Figure 175: All the accessories in place for all the bathrooms. Here is one example. Next in line will be installation of the doors. That's all for today! Thanks for watching!

Figure 174: This is a real annoyance, especially in this kind of a high quality and pricey kit: Bottle holder is too wide for the soap dispenser. 😡 Normally the task is supposed to be as easy as gluing the holder on the wall and then dropping the bottle into it and the bottle should just stay. However now the bottle passes through the ring. This should not happen. Now I have to glue the bottle to the ring from a touch point.

Figure 173: Bathroom accessories sorted, ready to glue in their places.

Figure 172: All 10 bathrooms with wash basins glued.