Graham,
Aah, but y'see I may have occasion to turn the jig over - guard's doors for example....
Simon,
Maunsell stock are all lovely characterful vehicles and atwo coach set (of different batches of stock) would be charming. In fact it's the next carriage build project for me, I think.
And so to 'current news'. Or more like 'not very current' news I guess. With the jig having been bought into play 0.020" x 0.060" strip was stuck into the hinge holes. I used Mek for this, as advocated by Jenkinson, but as you'll see later in the current installment it's not without attendant risks:
The other holes are for 0.030" door bangers and 0.6mm for the Slater's door 'T' handles and commode handles:
So, step forward about a week and the fittings are fixed in place in the following order: Hinges (including filler around the holes), Bangers, Door vents. And here's the visible problem - solvent has wicked between the skin and frame along the bottom door hinges. It's not a problem as the styrene is hard once more and filling with Humbrol Modelfiller and rubbing down with one of my home-brewed 400 grit sanding pads has got the surface back, but it's something I could have done without, frankly. Future builds will use Zap for the lower hinges...:
One for the road! I'll have these with me at Kettering and may well be a good place to draw this thread to a close. The underframes will be stock Slater's and so I'll cover that in my build of a Maunsell 2-set 'P' comprised of modified and as-per-the-kit Slater's carriages. It'll be nice to be finally getting to the R4 stock, which will be the mainstay of the layout:
See you at Kettering!
Steph