Varnished finish

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

Many thanks you your kind words and encouragement!
Steps to be added once I've worked out if we're going with three or two axles.
The hinges are very simple. Each half is a strip of thin brass sheet bent around a thin brass rod into a funny "R" shape. The doors and door frames have a pocket cut into them that the bent out leg of the R shape fits into. The lower hinge piece has a piece of brass rod soldered in.
I made a batch up and paired together the most similar halves.
These are then glued to the door and then the door and hinges glued to the frame with epoxy being very careful not to get any in the hinge.
Hopefully this close up goes someway to showing them. I think inspiration came from a Colin Bonnie droodle.

[LNR]

I have found and used the very small piano type hinges that you find on some glasses cases, you can cut them up to make a single hinge or use them whole. Some are as small as 25mm long, others are around 75mm long. Again a great job on those doors.
Grant.
PS was the opening sash window on the carriage end your doing?

[Dr. Bond of the DVLR]

Thanks Grant, that's a good tip. I'll keep an eye out for glasses case hinges. I'm taking a lot of inspiration from carriage 12 on the Mid Suffolk Light Railway where I drive. The carriage end windows can be opened for ventilation but also to hang the tail lamp on its bracket more easily, which I think is a neat trick. I've cheated and fixed the window in the open position as I didn't design in a pivot point. It's rather vulnerable so I don't know how well it'll last.

More progress today, finally installing the seats in the passenger compartment and test fitting the luggage racks before I put the string net on them. Long term friends of the DVLR may well recognise the drab green legs and brackets from the old carriage livery. There'd have been tins of it knocking around in the paint shop (indeed, there are tins of it on my bench still) so I thought why not?

[Peter Butler]

Better and better and better.... looks superb inside as well as out.

[ge_rik]

Those luggage rack brackets look spot-on!

Rik