As part of my efforts to remove all traces of the models HO origins I spent quite a lot of time hacking away at the steps moulded into the underframe. With all the detail present this wasn't a fun job.
Fortunately the sides are moulded from a very soapy plastic which carves well and reasonably cleanly. What I should have done is sharpened a screwdriver to make a small chisel but my scalpel did an OK job (an X-acto chisel is too large for this work).
New steps were fabricated from 1mm plastic. The verticals sit in slots cut in the detail with a hacksaw and are fixed with superglue - the only stuff that will get close to sticking to this plastic.
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