A couple of long waiting customs finished?

[Ucwepn]

Hey Guys I had an inquiry from our very own Super about my Peter Sam custom and adding rods to it, I said it was on the to-do list but it turns out I had done it and failed miserably and put it aside and forgot about it. So today I found him hiding at the turntable and dusted him off and got to work! I am very happy with split front axles now and their ability to carry "loop end rods" I'll just coin that phrase while I'm here lol. So I got the pliers out and pulled the axles out about 3mm and fitted the rods. Easy! You can see my over complex attempt at long rods which I will call version 1.0 it could not run and kept getting jammed.

Thanks to Super for that one!

Peter Sam version 1.0 (failure)

Peter Sam version 2.0 Happy engine!

Ok so Charlie is one of the most hated characters of all time for some reason but this particular version was a pile of parts in a bag just 1 hour before typing this. He of course donated his wheels to Bill or Ben so they could have red wheels . I had plans for this charlie including defacing him and using black wheels and possibly even painting him black and adding BR decals (that might still come yet). But for now here is my defaced Charlie with black wheels.

Trackmaster 1 Charlie defaced and wheel swapped