Orient Express Sleeping Car 1929 by aydingocer - FINISHED - Amati - Scale 1:32

[Ian B]

wow--- I have never thought of doing a model like this-- very inspiring---- I shall follow on for the ride  

[aydingocer]

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.

[aydingocer]

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.

 

 

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

 

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

 

[Veszett Roka]

I do understand the reason of paper decoration, but found somehow pity that we shall cover a wooden panel with a printed wood imitation paper.

[aydingocer]

Figure 213: Doors getting ready one by one.

 

That's all for today.
Thanks for watching!

[wefalck]

12 minutes ago, Veszett Roka said:

I do understand the reason of paper decoration, but found somehow pity that we shall cover a wooden panel with a printed wood imitation paper.

In most, but the very largest scales, the pattern of the real wood grain is way over-scale or not of the right sort. Also imitating the correct colour using dyes or stains tends to be a hit and miss action ...

 

Coming along nicely the model with all those meticuolous details! It's beginning to look like one of those models they used to have in the windows of travel agencies and that you now find in transport museums.

Edited December 28, 2021 by wefalck

[Veszett Roka]

4 hours ago, wefalck said:

In most, but the very largest scales, the pattern of the real wood grain is way over-scale or not of the right sort. Also imitating the correct colour using dyes or stains tends to be a hit and miss action ...

 

 

No one should build any wooden shipmodel (except gigantic ones) if we would take the wood grain patterns this serious. For colors, use veneer.

[aydingocer]

20 hours ago, Veszett Roka said:

I do understand the reason of paper decoration, but found somehow pity that we shall cover a wooden panel with a printed wood imitation paper.

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. 

[aydingocer]

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.

 

[aydingocer]

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).

 

 

 

 

 

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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!

[aydingocer]

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

Edited December 31, 2021 by aydingocer

[aydingocer]

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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Figure 232: All the stools and armrests complete, waiting to be installed in place.

 

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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.

 

Edited December 31, 2021 by aydingocer

[aydingocer]

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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Figure 242: They will look about like this when installed.

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Figure 243: Seats and backrests ready.

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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 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.
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[wefalck]

Coffins with floral patterns to cheer you up ? 🤢

 

Nice 'upholstery' !

 

The blankest and sheets on the beds look a bit shiny - I doubt they were silk   - perhaps a coat with really matt varnish would be good ...

[aydingocer]

1 hour ago, wefalck said:

The blankest and sheets on the beds look a bit shiny - I doubt they were silk   - perhaps a coat with really matt varnish would be good ...

Yes that might be a good idea also for protecting them.

[aydingocer]

Figures 246-249: Today I spent some time to install the furniture in the compartments. The train is starting to get the soul now!

 

 

 

 

[popeye the sailor]

VERY nicely done  

[aydingocer]

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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Figure 253: End of the first book! But looking at the material left, I feel the work (or fun!) is nowhere near half.

[aydingocer]

BUILD DAY 25 / 4 hr / (TOTAL: 70 hrs)

 

Figures 254-256: Boiler painted and installed it its dark room.

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 10, 2022 by aydingocer