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

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Here is how I always keep the paper sheets intact, removing only the part needed, so that I can identify the parts. In this case I know that this sheet belongs to compartment 8, as well as the labels of each piece (F, B .. etc). 

 

Figure 163

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Figure 164: There is a + mark on the paper decorations indicating the location of the door handle. That mark is to be transferred on the wooden trim. The handle will then be glued on the wooded trim.

 

 

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Figure 165: At this stage I applied white stationary glue with a brush for gluing the paper. 

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Figures 166, 167 : Mirrors on both door wings. Note also the wooden trims with an offset on the right door wings. When the doors are closed, this offset will overlap with the edge of the the left wing.

 

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Figure 168: Doors ready, though not fully. They are missing handles and the hinges.

 

 

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[wefalck]

 

"Figure 153: Bottles (probably containing Eau de Cologne). They will be hanging on the wall above the sink."

 

From the distance they look like the dispensing bottles for liquid soap. They were made either from glass (so that you could see the level of filling) or porcelaine. At the bottom there was a sprung valve (the sping is in the cylindrical part sticking out from the top). You pushed the knob at top to let soap out. In another variant you pushed the valve up with your hand underneath - the always leaked. Until the 1970s they were ubiquitous  in railways, public toilets, hotels etc., when they were replaced by plastic bottles.

 

Nice progress on little details ...

[aydingocer]

14 hours ago, wefalck said:

 

"Figure 153: Bottles (probably containing Eau de Cologne). They will be hanging on the wall above the sink."

 

From the distance they look like the dispensing bottles for liquid soap. They were made either from glass (so that you could see the level of filling) or porcelaine. At the bottom there was a sprung valve (the sping is in the cylindrical part sticking out from the top). You pushed the knob at top to let soap out. In another variant you pushed the valve up with your hand underneath - the always leaked. Until the 1970s they were ubiquitous  in railways, public toilets, hotels etc., when they were replaced by plastic bottles.

 

Nice progress on little details ...

 

Interesting information, thanks for sharing. I didn't know they had soap dispenser back then.

[yvesvidal]

21 hours ago, aydingocer said:

Figure 150: At this step I use UHU Hart, the pinnacle of German chemical engineering 🙂. My favourite modeling glue. Excellent stuff.

 

My favorite glue as well. I grew up in France and build my first planes with UHU Hart. By far the best glue for light woods.

Unfortunately, impossible to find in the USA. Testors Cement for wood is a pale substitute for UHU Hart.

 

Yves

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BUILD DAY 15: 4 hrs (TOTAL: 40 hrs)

 

Continuing with structures of the rest of the bathroom cabinets.

Figure 169: Bathrooms for compartments 1,3,5,7 and 9. Note they differ from the previous ones with a window on opening on one side.

 

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Figures 170, 171: Bathroom of compartment 10. This one is slightly different from all the others. By the way, all the bathroom cabinets have the same accessories, but because of the slightly varying shapes of the cabinets, their placement on the walls will differ.

 

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by aydingocer

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Figure 172: All 10 bathrooms with wash basins glued. 

 

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

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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.

 

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Figure 175: All the accessories in place for all the bathrooms. Here is one example.
Next in line will be installation of the doors.

 

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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.  

 

 

[Canute]

Nicely done, Aydingocer.

[yvesvidal]

These wagons were truly luxurious.

 

Yves

[aydingocer]

1 hour ago, Canute said:

Nicely done, Aydingocer.

Thanks Ken!

[ah100m]

Amazon has UHU Hart glue.  Four tubes for $25.

[aydingocer]

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
 

Edited November 9, 2021 by aydingocer

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

Edited November 12, 2021 by aydingocer

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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.

 

Edited November 15, 2021 by aydingocer

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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. 

 

 

 

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Aydin

Edited November 16, 2021 by aydingocer
correction: #10 is different

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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:

 

[popeye the sailor]

very nice work......coming together very well  

[aydingocer]

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. 

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

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Figure 205: Gauges painted and glued on their place. 

 

Figure 206: Corridor wall installed.

 

 

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