In the last post about the carriage I had just begun the process of cleaning the flash from the windows, and I managed to get that completed, made up the corridor connections out of styrene (a fiddly job I'm not fond of) and glued them together into a basic bodyshell.
Once that's done, and in order to protect the rather fragile superglue-on-resin joints, I try to make up the floor and false roof so that they can help to keep the carriage square and stop it flexing about too much.
Incidentally, while I was in Wales for Superpower I learnt a new nickname for these carriages which amused me.
The first three were designed with regular droplight windows in the middle of each bay of seats, in line with the tables.
They became known as 'Super Barns' in a nod to the original series of Centenary carriages build in the 1960s.
The most recent four carriages have been revised with much larger windows with hopper windows set into the toplights, which a friend referred to as 'Super-Duper Barns'
I rather like that.
The official name for them, I should point out, is Super Saloons - but I've never heard anyone call them that in conversation and I'm not about to start here.
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