123

123's reached that most satisfying stage of the build when the four sides are glued together, a floor and roof are made up and for the first time you glimpse what the finished carriage is going to look like.



The final detailing job before gluing it into a box was to add some bits of sytrene rod and thin brass wire to represent the electrical connections at each end of the carriage. These, of course, are rather a contradiction because really when running in a train formation they should be connected to the neighbouring carriage, but just like with vacuum pipes it's one of those massive compromises most modellers make and conspire to ignore.



I use Milliput epoxy putty for forming the domed ends of the Observation Carrs (and the Tin Carrs) and it has yet to be finished off with the abrasive paper in the photographs - it takes a day to set - and I will need to add a lip at the front above the end windows and add a little more filler because I've made the roof base just a tiny, weeny bit short.

So, onto the interior now....