Pictured here (top left) are the parts used to create the new sides. An original SN car side with its rectangular windows can be seen at the top of the photo. Two 3″ wide pieces of scribed siding with arched win- dows are in the center and just below them can be seen a letterboard cut from a new side. This close-up (above) shows a section of scribed siding and the arches that need to be placed in the window openings. The car sides are built up using inner and outer walls and a lettering board (lower left).
with the software output – I failed to make the outside edges of the window arches match the inside edges of the window opening: the arches were too small. I remedied this by cutting a form and force-fitting them to the opening. Stretching basswood is not easy! Then, because they were also too thick I spent time sanding them to the correct dimension.
About that time my biggest mistake
waste the whole piece I cut off the top to be used as a letter board. This was fortu- nate because the letter board dips into the window slightly and this piece had
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the perfect shape. So began a kitbash of the kitbashing project.
I began building up the sides of the car when I discovered my first mistake
was uncovered when a friend told me that the left side of the car did not match the right side. I only had right side photos to work with so I made the wrong assumption that both sides were the same. There were no doors on the left; instead there was an extra double window, a single arched window at the
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