Well, surprising a lot in all honesty. Yet despite professing that I completely and utterly Frank Spencered the hell of of it, this Dave Alexander Q6 chassis has somehow forgiven me enough to work!(I wish girls worked like that...)
That's right, we're back to the Q6, new home, new job, new pets but same model as before ( Have mentioned it before haven't I? *goes and checks* No... bollocks. Okay a bit of a history lesson, somewhere between by breakdown train and now I bought a secondhand kit Q6 off of a gentleman on RMWeb! The body was partially built but the chassis was untouched and included pretty much everything I needed which was great. I had to buy in a new motor and gear box but that wasn't too bad.
But judging by my ability to literally balls up every effort I aim for - I was slightly reluctant to ham fist my way through this without taking my time.
Anyway time past, I met my girlfriends family, and extended family, bump into several people and eventually moved house and did other stuff and blah blah blah! So eventually i realised i was going to die one day (hopefully not too soon) and I would look up from the depths of hell and wished I had built the bugger from I perished so this is literally me trying to hurry it along before time takes it's toll. not that i'm knowingly dying that the moment (christ, I hope not)
But yes, I finally got there, the chassis is complete and it works!
Here's the result.
I've even added a flywheels to which is suppose to improve running... though the jury is still out on that, but it looks fairly important so I'll just tell people that it's important.
Here's the Q6 looking complete (but the discerning viewer will notice it isn't). By the time of my next blog, i should have built my twelfth. Looking at what the gentleman wanted to do originally it would be a shame now to use the fine scale items he's supplied so hopefully you'll get to see it with all the mod cons like a Q6 GTI or something car people get aroused over. I'm not a car person so not even a semi for me. Now love rot professional corner where I attempt to make love someone else model. Well, I was given this little darling to repaint... more to come on her. Needless to say, she won't be Great Western for long.
Yes that's right, she'll be London Transport L.150, except she won't! She'll be carrying "Metropolitan 1". I'm quite looking forward to this project actually despite the full repaint that I will have to carry out, I was also told it doesn't have to be exact which is helpful (Frank Spencer anyone).
Going back to my stuff, next in line (possibly concurrent with my Q6 project) is this Bachmann (and the bits) WD. Personally speaking, I'm no rivet counter but also I'm not a big fan of haphazard finishes without good reason so this better have been bloody good one. By the looks of this it'll be a need a full repaint after a fair rub down to get rid of the "LNER" that still prevalent. Love what they did with the number too. Matching shades of cream! No that I should point and mock, we all start somewhere, plus I don't know who did it - so I can't point.
I'm just going to randomly point and wave madly. You know this is how Hitler started, you know!
