Today I widened the balcony from 4 to 5 cm. This looks better and the little passengers have more room on the balcony while entering or leaving the train (sorry, no picture of this...).
All sidings are basically finished and the two compartments were glued in place on the chassis.
From the same Playmobil carriage the trucks came from I removed the buffers from the chassis by using a little hacksaw:
The cut out piece was then neatly filed:
A bufferbar was made in the same way as the sidings: a piece of balsa covered with polystyrene sheet. Two holes were drilled in the hollow part of the buffer (don't know the correct term... buffer support?); one on the back side and one on top. The hole in the backside can be used for a screw that holds the buffer in place (I will glue it but the screw is extra).
The second hole is on top to hold a little brass hook for the chain:
The bufferbar is made to slide in a groove between the chassis and the top side siding. This way the bar is not only very sturdy but it give me the possibility to adjust the bar somewhat in height to align it more easily with the buffer height of the LGB carriage.
Once in good position the bar is glued in place.
The bar in place. You can see I made some extra re-enforcement with balsa.
Alignment with LGB buffer:
And today's end result (without the hook...):
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