That moment when all the pieces are ready to be joined together into one bodyshell, which is the stage 2048 is at now.
On the latest FR and WHR carriages that moment takes a lot longer to reach because of the recessed doors which mean you have to complete 8 sub-assemblies before they can be glued together.
Scratch building in styrene takes a lot longer but when you get to this moment it is a lot easier to bond plastic parts together and get them in just the right position compared to the resin pieces I use for the FR Superbarns.
Its also worth showing you one of the key steps I take before forming into a shell, gluing little blocks on the back which will set the height of the floor / chassis.
These are exactly 3mm above the bottom of the bodyside and I use a small piece of styrene to as a guide to make sure they're all set in exactly the right position.
It's so much harder to do this when its glued together.
Once that happens it's important to cut the floor as soon as I can to help keep the bodysides straight and prevent them bending inwards like inverted bananas, which is what the styrene naturally wants to do.
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