The front platform dash is made from brass sheet. The headlamp surround has been soldered to the front. This required a fair amount of heat from a mini-blow torch.
Here we jump a few steps ahead with the platform dash, vestibules and platform together. Some modellers pin the dash to the platform, but I chose to make small brackets from brass soldered to the dash and then bolt the dash to the platform. At this point the vestibules were being glazed with glass. The glass is old large microscope slides cut to size with a diamond cutter and then carefully ground to size using a sharpening stone. All the glazing in the model is glass except the lower saloon quarter lights – I am considering replacing these since the upper saloon quarter lights are now glass.
Here is the platform in place.
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