Pavilions finished structurally
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The 'great lift' is now finished, with the addition of the final 2mm at the bases of the pavilions, and I have also put all the moulding detail around the tops of the pavilion columns - at least as far as practicability allows. I had previously done this on one of them, but that got trashed when I separated the roof slab to add the 2mm in there, so it's just as well I hadn't done them all before.
This is what I'm referring to:
Anyway, it's useful to show again how I did it.
Main ingredients - Evergreen 1.5mm angle and 0.5mm square section
Glue the section into the elbow of the angle, this gives a passable simplified representation of the moulding
Cut to length, allowing a bit over for mitreing them for the corners
Separate the collection of pieces into two equal groups, because there will be 'left handed' and 'right handed' mitres. Take a deep breath and get your head round which way to cut them - I used the Chopper for this:
Do the other half the other way round, and you will end up with a collection of left and right-handed pieces ready to fit in place.
I glued them with Uhu, and also applied some MekPak afterwards around the edges and at the corners to provide a bit more adhesion (well it works gluing chairs to ply sleepers).
And here are seven of them completed
John has the last one, but I've got all the bits to do that with when the time comes.
This is roughly the same view as the real photo above
Here I've experimented with some pencil lines to see if they can emulate additional relief that's not actually there - I'm not sure yet whether it will make that much difference (but I probably will do it on all of them when they're finally painted - more neatly obviously!)
And this is what the 'big lift' was all for - to get the cantrail level of the coach about level with the top of the roof slab, rather than being nearer the bottom of the pitched section of the roof.
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