August-September 2023. I’d really looked forward to building this one, but it turned out a bit frustrating. It’s got a complicated drive train, that I think was based on the old motor chassis Super Model. Anyway, it took a long time to fettle. The finished model looked good, but I wasn’t really happy with it. It needed proper floors on the two decks, and there was only half a staircase. Basically they’d used up all the outfit’s nuts and bolts, so there are some glaring gaps in the build. Anyway I’d have preferred a model looking more like a London Transport RT prototype I think. The finished model weighed a ton. Here’s what it looked like:
Build notes
This was a fiddly build, and there were some gaps in the model – literally. I added the top half of the staircase that’s missing from the model, but lost the will to live and didn’t add the rest of the flooring. The drive train managed to move the chassis along OK, but the extra weight of the bodywork was too much for it. There were a few minor errors in the text and the parts list, but that’s as normal!
