The load bed is now mostly finished:
As you can see, I decided to also replace the hinges on the other panels, as well as add detail to the front one that Dragon conveniently omitted. Well, they do give two things that seem to be vertical wooden slats, but that’s about it, so I cut them off and replaced them by more plastic strip. The hinges on all of them are made from grey plastic rod, so they’re hard to spot in the photos.
The rear one hangs down well enough by being glued to the stops under the supporting beams, but the one on the side would only be glued to its three hinges, which in turn are even more precariously glued to the bits of plastic strip, so I felt a more secure method was needed:
This is 0.5 mm steel florist’s wire, inserted into holes drilled into the load bed frame and through two bits of plastic strip I glued under the load bed for this purpose (drill first, then glue in place with the wire through both holes), then superglued to the side panel. They will be entirely out of sight like this, and give the thing enough strength that it can stand like it does in the first photo without bending or breaking. Yet
What it still needs is a few details, mainly the handles that lock the panels together when they’re closed, plus the eyes they go into,