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26. The center roof brace has been added.
Now it’s time to add the detail parts. All I have left to add are
the corner stirrups, and the center stirrup to be secured onto
the underframe of the car.
I drill number 72 holes into the underframe as close as I can get
to the sides. I have tried drilling into the sides before but find
this almost impossible to control. The outside of the under-
frame has mounting points with two NBW castings molded
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27. The two halves of the roof have been installed.
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28. The holes drilled for the corner steps.
on them. Get as close as you can to these. You can see my
attempt in [28]. I had to open up the one closest to the end a
bit to make it work.
With the holes drilled, go ahead and attach the stirrups with
CA. The parts supplied in the kit look like A-Line stirrups, so if
you make a mistake it is easy to get replacements.
To do the rest is just a matter of repeating the processes. Once
all of the supports are mounted I add the running board to
the car with canopy glue. The glue I used is from Pacer, but
there are others around. Fellow modeler Tony Thompson has
been extolling the virtues of this glue for some time and now I
understand why.
Before mounting the running board, I run the teeth of a razor
saw in between the boards to separate them for the first cou-
ple of scale feet [31]. It gives the impression that there are
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