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It was as I suspected, the superglue had bonded to the poly glue and pulled it away from the plastic of the chassis. I cleaned up the surfaces with a scalpel and then filed them flat with a needle file and re-applied the superglue and they bonded . Just to make certain I stuck a square of 2mm thick plastic card across the join to reinforce the join. (1st photo)
I did a trial cut of one of the design pages using 0.5mm white card (2nd photo) mainly to check it fitted against the modified chassis, this looked to be in order. In this photo you will see one roof layer on the right and the two roof templates that I will use to check the profile when I sand the roof to shape later in the build.
One of the apprehensions I had with the class 50 model was the not so fine finish. Although the enamel paint had provided a fairly tough coat on the cardboard, it left a lot to be desired in my opinion. I was chatting with a French friend who's a designer and he suggested I sprayed it with acrylic ink, he thought this might result in a finer finish.
I agree with what he says but have reservations as to the strength of the body once complete, some more experimentation is on the cards.
As the livery carried on the southern prototypes was British Railways black I thought it might be prudent to use black card. (3rd photo)
Here in France it is possible to buy card in various colours as well as weights and I just happened to have a couple of sheets in stock. ( in stock meaning the pile of junk in the corner of my bedroom). I cut this into A4 sheets and used one to cut some more parts, which was successful, I had feared the card would be too tough to cut through, because I'd already experienced this before when I first used the Silhouette.
Unfortunately the cutting mat has now lost all it's sticky so the second sheet shed some of its parts and jammed the cutter enough to shift the mat slightly. This resulted in the parts being cut all wrong, so now I have to buy another cutting mat or find some genuinly re-positionable adhesive before I can carry on.
In the design I drew all the lines to be cut in red and all the lines to be scribed in blue. There's tick boxes for each colour. I ran the first cut with the blade set at Number 1 and scribed the blue lines, then did three more passes, one at setting 3, one at 6 and finally one at 7. This provided a clean cut through, at 6 some places don't quite cut right through. The scribing can just be seen in photo 4, the lines scribed were
1/ two parallel horizontal lines as guide for silver stripe halfway up
2/ various panel positions
3/ positions of doors
In the two outer layers I have arranged for the doorways to be cut out, on the next subsequent layers the doors are filled in, just the door windows are cut out. I did this to alleviate the faffing around I had with the class 50 doors, where I cut all the doorways out and then had to trim and stick back all the door blanks to fill the holes, dohh. Hopefully this will result in cleaner doorways on this model. Here's the pics-
When I get a new mat I'll continue with the next installment.
Regards Roly
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