Six (6) wide or Eight (8) wide. That is the question. It is sad… but some of our team are moving towards the more proportionally correct eight wide while others of us remain loyal to six wide builds.
For me, it comes down to my old LEGO building days where we were four wide… and occasionally only two wide. I still live in a world where a typical car holds one minifig and is four wide, while trucks and trains are six wide. I still am struggling with eight wide cars, though my owns son is a proponent.
Mike, like me a VW / Audi fan, purchased new Audi Sport Quattro S1 set, but did not realize it was designed as an eight wide build. He then bought a second one determined to re-build it as a six wide build, both to match his other Racer Series cars and so that it would fit on his train transport carriers.
I think by removing two studs from the centre of the car balanced it out very well when making the car six wide. Here are Mike’s comments:
Here are a few of the pictures of my 6-wide rallye car, and some pictures of the two for comparison. I have changed the colour of the front spoiler on both cars to better match the actual rallye car this set is based on. I’ve done some surgery to the front spoiler on both cars. I modified the rear spoiler brackets on the small car so that it doesn’t look as bulky as it does on the 8-wide.The rear decal on the 6-wide car had to be cut to fit the narrower bumper. I added a 1×1 round stud to the underside of the exhaust so that the tailpipe sticks out a little further.I had black wheel spokes from another Speed Champions set that I used on the 6-wide.
Shrinking it “width-wise” was relatively easy. It took a LOT more thought and figuring to shorten car in length.
