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The nose
Thank you guys for your responses, next time I will use the correct terminology. Engineer, right. By profession, I'm an engineer too, albeit a chemical engineer.
Next logical step is to build in the internals but first the body (hull is for ships; fuselage is for aircraft; body is for trains??) needs to be assembled. Basically this consists of two parts, otherwise the model wouldn't fit A4 or letter size paper.
There's a lot that can be told about building the nose as some alterations to the original design were required as appeared during the process, as after all it's still a test-build.
In the final version the nose has been divided into two main sections, which make the entire assembly easier to build, especially when connecting the - let's call them - petals that make up the characteristic bulge.
I've not been taking pictures regularly during this part of the build but to give you a bit of an impression of how the parts look like before assembly, in the first two pictures the original design and joining strips are shown.
Remaining pictures are of the final version. Cutting out the windows is a tedious job and joining the windscreen to the roof section and side posts takes patience and careful planning. The side posts have a tendency to buckle as they need to be bend in both concave and convex shapes. For this reason I cut them in two parts and don't think this could be solved or designed in a different way.
As you can see in the pictures, it's really a step by step process of gluing and correcting to get to the end result. Final touch-ups with red paint or marker are still required but that will follow in due time.
Cheers,
Erik
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