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

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BUILD DAY 31 / 2 hrs / (TOTAL: 85 hrs)

 

Today I started to build the corridor side carriage inner wall. 

 

Figure 316: Paper decoration. It is in 2 pieces, around 30cm each.  Showing here that you'll need to carve out the window openings as well. 

 

 

Figure 317: Glued on the plywood sheet. 

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Figure 318-319: Preparing the "skirting board". Covered with the carpet material. It will also cover over the heating pipes.

 

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Figure 320: The skirting board and copper heating pipes are in place. Copper pipes are indeed pipes with a hole in them, not just wire 🙂.

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 22, 2022 by aydingocer

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Figures 325-328: Handrails and their fixings on either side. Tiny parts indeed. They are made of the nickel photo etch sheet.

 

 

 

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Figure 329: Handrails and seats in place.

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Figures 330-331: Folding bunk and the chair to be installed in the corridor. They are mixture of metal and wood. All painted in brown.

 

 

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[wefalck]

Coming on nicely !

 

I quite admire the designers of such kits. Doing a one-off and tweaking things to fit is one thing, but here you have to get it completely right so that the customers do not complain about poor fit etc.

 

I remember those folding seats along the corridors from the old days. Today there are mostly open-plan coaches with no corridors.

[aydingocer]

On 1/22/2022 at 12:15 PM, wefalck said:

I quite admire the designers of such kits. Doing a one-off and tweaking things to fit is one thing, but here you have to get it completely right so that the customers do not complain about poor fit etc.

Indeed. Though as paying customers we reserve the right to be nagging every now and then, the overall work they do especially on high quality level kits are quite impressive. 

[aydingocer]

BUILD DAY 32 / 2 hrs / (TOTAL: 87 hrs)

 

Windows on the corridor side of the carriage.These can be slide opened and closed ( Photo from the manual).

Figure 333:

 

Figures 333-334 : Window rails and sheets.

 

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Figure 335: Some sheets need minor adjustments. I marked them with different colors to indicate correct placement.

 

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Figures 336-338: Bend the handles about 30 degrees from the rails. A flat-nosed pair of pliers is handy to grab the handle and press it at an angle over a hard surface.

 

 

 

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Figure 339: Gluing the inner and outer walls to each other, very very carefully. Glue is applied on the wooden strips which I glued around the windows and long edges on one side. They will provide the necessary gap to slide the window sheets through.

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Figure 340: I installed the corridor seat in place while waiting for the wall assembly above to dry.

 

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Figures  341-342: Sliding the window sheets into place and gluing the window rails.

 

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Figures 343-344: Photos from the current status: 

 

 

 

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Edited January 25, 2022 by aydingocer

[aydingocer]

BUILD DAY 33 / 2 hrs / (TOTAL: 89 hrs)

Now it is time to do the compartment side carriage wall. Here the inner walls for each compartment is separate and therefore it is a bit trickier. According to the instructions you first dry fit the inner walls and make the necessary trims and adjustments, then glue all of them to their place on the outer wall. And then you glue the whole thing to the wagon, hoping that all the sockets, walls and whatnot will just fit and snap nicely 😆. I am sure that it won't be the case for me so I decided take a different approach. If an inner wall requires trimming and adjustment, I will glue them directly to the carriage thereby reducing the risk of preventing a good installation.

 

Figures 345-347: Some photos below showing my progress of  dry fitting the inner walls.

 

 

 

 

Before gluing the inner walls to their place, I will need to install on them a few things like the folding table, heating radiator, window stoppers and jacket hook.

 

Figure 348: Parts for constructing the folding tables and radiators.

 

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Edited January 25, 2022 by aydingocer

[Etcher]

Watching this build is making me want to get the kit myself. Then I looked up the price! 😂

 

Love the interior details!

[druxey]

Very impressive kit and work.I, too, was tempted until I saw the price tag!

[aydingocer]

10 hours ago, Etcher said:

Watching this build is making me want to get the kit myself. Then I looked up the price! 😂

 

Love the interior details!

 

9 hours ago, druxey said:

Very impressive kit and work.I, too, was tempted until I saw the price tag!

 

🤣 Believe me I tried to forget thinking about buying it many times, but finally the curiosity won. But it is worth every penny so far. Great kit and great experience!

[aydingocer]

BUILD DAY 34 / 1 hr / (TOTAL: 90 hrs)

Figures 348-349: A recommendation before I start this day's log. I have been using these medium and thin CA glues in this kit. The disposable flexi-tip nozzles fit both viscosities perfectly. No glue stain anywhere else than exactly where you need it to be. Highly recommended.

 

Edited January 28, 2022 by aydingocer

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Continuing with the radiator/folding table combination.

 

Tables can be set folded or open. It is up to the builder to decide how many of which to build. I checked carefully with each compartment to ensure that the compartment furniture (such as freely placed the stools) won't obstruct the open table and decided to build 4 of them open and 6 of them folded. 

 

Figure 350: The radiator, (metal), wooden table surface (wooden).

 

Figure 351: First folded table ready.

 

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Figures 352-353: See the folded ears extends over the radiator. They need to be trimmed (the second photo) to allow proper installation of the radiator on the wall. 

 

 

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Figure 354: Here is a photo showing open and folded tables at different angles.

 

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Figures 355-357: Painted and being glued in their places. 

 

 

 

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[Egilman]

Fantastic work Aydin...

 

More artistry on display....

 

Very Very nice....

[popeye2sea]

18 hours ago, druxey said:

Very impressive kit and work.I, too, was tempted until I saw the price tag!

 

Still cheaper than travelling on the real thing.  $4000 to $6000 for an overnight trip.

 

 

Regards,

[aydingocer]

On 1/28/2022 at 8:17 PM, popeye2sea said:

 

Still cheaper than travelling on the real thing.  $4000 to $6000 for an overnight trip.

 

 

Regards,

Wow, looking at those photos my kit still misses a lot of details

[aydingocer]

BUILD DAY 35 / 3 hr / (TOTAL: 93 hrs)

 

While waiting for the decal chemicals in the mail, I proceeded with then next step: the head ends.

 

Figures 358-359: They are identical at both ends of the wagon. The black parts in the photos are bellows, made of iron cast. They are made of two parts which you glue together. They take some amount of filing before they fit each other properly. 

 

 

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Figures 360-361: You need a 1.2mm diameter hole on each outward facing ear. I used my Proxxon drill base for stability, otherwise the drillbit was sliding away at the contact to the surface.