With the roof sort of sorted I turned my attention to the building of the body. After experimenting unsuccessfully with scribing planks in to plastic card I settled for using tongued and grooved boarding from the wills 'scenic series', seen here.

The next photo shows the sides cut from a Wills T&G sheet and in it you can see the roof section (third from left) with the plastic card attached

I stuck the sides to a floor panel and left it overnight to cure before going any further. Unfortunately I discovered later when I had attached the ends that it was all too tall, I had made the floor full width but the floor panel should have sat inside the sides the photo isn't very clear but it shows what I mean.

I made and fitted a partition to add stability while I cut the floor section off, the piece of white card inside is 2mm thick to create space for the floor panel inside the walls, when fitted it will be sitting on the floor.

The floor came away easily, surprisingly I managed to get the cutting knife in between and remove the floor, I reduced the size of the floor and re-fitted it, cleaned it all up and marked out the positions of the doors etc and scribed in the planks as the doors were to come from a 0.5mm plastic sheet whereas Wills's ones are 1.5mm

In the next post you will see the start of adding detail

cheers for now