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HOW TO : Build A Northeastern Scale Models Passenger Shelter Like most of the other Northeastern kits, this one is (almost) complete and requires no scratch building skills. Everything you will need, except the roof shingles, to complete the kit is included. It is a simple and straight forward kit that is easy to put together. However, it does include a number a small pieces and some needle nose tweezers are just about mandatory! The kit uses tab and slots for the walls to connect to be base, but nowhere else! Even the two roof panels have no slots so they must be positioned by eye and then held in pace until the glue dries enough to take over! As with other laser cut kits you need to prepare and paint it before any construction. In this case I decided to leave the main walls in their natural wood finish and to paint the trim. A little weathering at the end would complete things. The instructions were followed quite carefully. You do need to be very careful when aligning pieces. There are no marks to guide you and they do need to be aligned correctly! The only possible exceptions are the five roof trusses since they will be very difficult to see with the finished structure (unless you look from a low angle). I suppose you could even leave them off altogether if you wished; there is plenty of support for the roof panels without them. Note: The roof trusses are small and fragile and easy to break. In fact I did break one of them. Thanks to the needle nose tweezers, fixing it wasn't a problem - that particular truss was applied in two pieces! The instructions do not indicate how to actually glue these trusses into place. What worked for me was to glue them at roof peak only and let the drop of glue partially dry. At this point I made sure they were positioned correctly and then applied a little bit of glue at the other anchor points (using a toothpick, of course). Oh yes, I did them one at a time! Patience my friend! As with other kits the instructions say to paint the roof or apply any covering of your choice (not included). I used Northeastern's Weathered Sienna Random (NSHG9) Shingles (a sheet of shingles that is 2 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches that purchased at the same time as the gray shingles used with the Motor Car Shed). As before, I used double sided tap to apply the shingles. They were set in place before the panels were glued to the roof supports. The roof peak was finished as it was for the shed. At this point a little weathering was applied to the building. A black wash was applied inside the shelter and just a little was added to the exterior walls and roof. The shelter was now finished!
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