asporter2007
SWT 30' AEC Regent V project (2)
Progress since the last shot. As you can see, I have cut an aperture for the front entrance and built up a rear end to the lower deck using plastic card. This comprises a strip of plastic card folded to produce the 2 rear corners then glued to a rectangular piece at the lower edges to create an open box, then roughly cut to the shape of the remaining metalwork and bolted to what is left of the rear platform through the existing rivet hole. Everything looks like a dog's hind leg because I have yet to do the final cutting and filing to produce accurate joints, but I thought I would see if it could be assembled just to see what it looks like. I need to cut window apertures in the plastic card as well, then once the lower deck is all Araldited together I have to remove the remaining window pillars. I had not taken into account the fact that I would need to remove all the lower deck pillars, thus removing all support from the narrow panel immediately above them, hence the need for some adhesive work before removal. The upper deck has already had its window pillars removed and will require joining together in the middle before I start work on replacing the pillars to the correct spacing.
Even in this crude state I can see a vestigial "silver" Regent coming to life. So far I'm quite pleased with the job, but already I can see other, possibly better, ways of getting the result.
More pics to follow as work progresses.
SWT 30' AEC Regent V project (2)
Progress since the last shot. As you can see, I have cut an aperture for the front entrance and built up a rear end to the lower deck using plastic card. This comprises a strip of plastic card folded to produce the 2 rear corners then glued to a rectangular piece at the lower edges to create an open box, then roughly cut to the shape of the remaining metalwork and bolted to what is left of the rear platform through the existing rivet hole. Everything looks like a dog's hind leg because I have yet to do the final cutting and filing to produce accurate joints, but I thought I would see if it could be assembled just to see what it looks like. I need to cut window apertures in the plastic card as well, then once the lower deck is all Araldited together I have to remove the remaining window pillars. I had not taken into account the fact that I would need to remove all the lower deck pillars, thus removing all support from the narrow panel immediately above them, hence the need for some adhesive work before removal. The upper deck has already had its window pillars removed and will require joining together in the middle before I start work on replacing the pillars to the correct spacing.
Even in this crude state I can see a vestigial "silver" Regent coming to life. So far I'm quite pleased with the job, but already I can see other, possibly better, ways of getting the result.
More pics to follow as work progresses.