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Offline raafif

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Re: Bus
« Reply #25 on: January 02, 2013, 04:34:05 PM »
Good idea, Weaver :)  I meant to get a few of those Dapol railbus kits a few years ago but the price put me off ($28 !! each) -- used to go to the cinema on saturdays in those 2-car railbus sets :-*
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Offline kitnut617

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Re: Bus
« Reply #26 on: January 02, 2013, 10:54:05 PM »
Way back when, I used to stay a lot at my Gran & Grandad's in Hitchen.  One day Grandad took me to a station nearby (possible Luton) and we got on the first ever passenger service trip of one of those which went down the north leg of the line.  We sat right behind the driver so I could see where we were going.
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Offline raafif

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Re: Bus
« Reply #27 on: January 03, 2013, 05:18:08 AM »
Yeah they were fun to ride in but most remembered was the Lyons Fruit Pies from the vending-machine on the platform ... Blackcurrant & Apple for me !!  Always had to have a go at the giant (6ft tall) Dymo label machine too :D
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Offline Mark Aldrich

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Re: Bus
« Reply #28 on: January 11, 2013, 11:04:02 PM »
For those of us that build in 1/35 Armor scale, ARII makes several 1/32 buses that could easily be "Doomsdayed" OUT!!!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=1%2F32+arii+bus&_sacat=0&_odkw=1%2F32+bus&_osacat=0&_from=R40
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Offline LemonJello

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Re: Bus
« Reply #29 on: January 12, 2013, 01:14:31 AM »
Quote from: Mark Aldrich on January 11, 2013, 11:04:02 PM
For those of us that build in 1/35 Armor scale, ARII makes several 1/32 buses that could easily be "Doomsdayed" OUT!!!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=1%2F32+arii+bus&_sacat=0&_odkw=1%2F32+bus&_osacat=0&_from=R40


Hmmm, plate armor on the windows with gun ports, snow plow/dozer blade, bar armor, fore and aft weapons stations/turrets on the roof...maybe a little "A-Team meets The Walking Dead"? 
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Online Jeffry Fontaine

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Re: Bus
« Reply #30 on: January 12, 2013, 01:41:13 AM »
Other than the right hand drive, that Araii bus is perfect :)
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Re: Bus
« Reply #31 on: January 12, 2013, 01:49:38 AM »
Aoshima and Fujimi have been making 1/32 kits of modern Japanese buses/motor-coaches for a few years,
Hobby 1999 has a good list that shows what's available and what's sold out.

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/list/1824/3/1

Here is an inbox of a Fujimi Hino S'Elega:
http://www.internetmodeler.com/2007/november/first-looks/fujimi_s'elega.php
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Online Jeffry Fontaine

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Re: Bus
« Reply #32 on: January 12, 2013, 03:23:27 AM »
Quote from: jcf on January 12, 2013, 01:49:38 AM
Aoshima and Fujimi have been making 1/32 kits of modern Japanese buses/motor-coaches for a few years,
Hobby 1999 has a good list that shows what's available and what's sold out.

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/list/1824/3/1

Here is an inbox of a Fujimi Hino S'Elega:
http://www.internetmodeler.com/2007/november/first-looks/fujimi_s'elega.php


Verra nice!  Much nicer than the clunky Araii school bus clones. 
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Offline Alvis 3.1

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Re: Bus
« Reply #33 on: January 12, 2013, 02:56:50 PM »
Courtesy of my 20 year old son, who apparently has absorbed some of my insanity:

Double Decker Bus Undercover Police vehicle. Theory goes: Who'd suspect it? Top deck could hold heavy weaponry, to take out fleeing vehicles, and the rest would carry loads of cops and listening gear.

I've been eyeballing the 1/24 Double Decker with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, I'm drawing my plans to use it!

Alvis 3.1
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Re: Bus
« Reply #34 on: January 13, 2013, 02:33:09 AM »
Great idea!
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Offline raafif

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Re: Bus
« Reply #35 on: January 13, 2013, 05:05:31 AM »
Quote from: Alvis 3.1 on January 12, 2013, 02:56:50 PM
Courtesy of my 20 year old son, who apparently has absorbed some of my insanity:

Double Decker Bus Undercover Police vehicle. Theory goes: Who'd suspect it? Top deck could hold heavy weaponry, to take out fleeing vehicles, and the rest would carry loads of cops and listening gear.

I've been eyeballing the 1/24 Double Decker with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, I'm drawing my plans to use it!

Alvis 3.1


have a look here for an idea ... ;)
           http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=2535.0
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Offline Logan Hartke

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Re: Bus
« Reply #36 on: September 08, 2013, 01:59:03 AM »
Alright, guys.  I found a picture of a bus for you guys to have some whiffing fun with.  It's a Lancia.



Cheers,

Logan
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Offline kitnut617

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Re: Bus
« Reply #37 on: September 08, 2013, 04:52:31 AM »
Quote from: LemonJello on January 12, 2013, 01:14:31 AM
Hmmm, plate armor on the windows with gun ports, bar armor, fore and aft weapons stations

My wife tells me that's how the school bus was when she went to school while in Hong Kong (her Dad was stationed there in the 60's)
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Offline Weaver

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Re: Bus
« Reply #38 on: September 08, 2013, 08:00:56 AM »
Quote from: Daryl J. on May 05, 2012, 04:00:49 AM
Rat rod this!



Or reproduce a real one to full Hot August Nights standards, and go cruising on summer weekends.

Isn't this bus a lovely?


There is an even cooler/crazier version:



That really needs a pair of air-cooled Spandaus on top of the bonnet.....
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Offline Weaver

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Re: Bus
« Reply #39 on: September 08, 2013, 08:04:57 AM »
Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on January 02, 2013, 03:06:09 AM

Little boy: "Grandpa, what did you do in the war?" 

Old man: "I was a door gunner on an assault bus."


Get the Revell double-decker and fit it with big Huey-style style sliding doors in the upper deck. You can then have door gunners and SAS/SPECFORS types speed-roping down to street level from it.... ;D
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Offline Story

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Re: Bus
« Reply #40 on: June 16, 2017, 07:13:44 PM »
For what it's worth, I remember a lurid tale from the old SOLDIER OF FORTUNE magazine recounting how a Bus line in Rhodesia (circa 1977-1978) kept having it's buses stopped and riders robbed by a local guerilla group.

The writer recounted how one of the buses was turned into a rolling Q-ship, with firing ports cut into the sides just a bit above the passenger deck. Two broadsides of belt-fed machinesguns (PK? FNs? RPDs? Can't remember) were fitted, & possibly some of those electronically-initiated big shotguns fitted to the frame.

The crew dressed up as farmers, women, etc.

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Offline Story

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Re: Bus
« Reply #41 on: November 13, 2019, 03:42:28 AM »
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Offline Story

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Re: Bus
« Reply #42 on: March 02, 2021, 11:15:58 PM »
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Offline Story

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Re: Bus
« Reply #43 on: March 02, 2021, 11:19:56 PM »
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Offline kitnut617

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Re: Bus
« Reply #44 on: March 02, 2021, 11:47:48 PM »
Mrs kitnut when she lived in Hong Kong (her Dad was in the Army), has told me that when she went to school, they had to go in an armoured bus as the road they had to use ran close to the border and sometimes they were shot at from the other side -- I've tried to get her to tell me what it looked like but she doesn't remember the details ---
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Offline LemonJello

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Re: Bus
« Reply #45 on: March 02, 2021, 11:53:20 PM »
Quote from: Story on March 02, 2021, 11:15:58 PM
I know damn well some of you remember this.


I need a kit of this, in 1/35.
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Offline Story

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Re: Bus
« Reply #46 on: March 03, 2021, 12:34:54 AM »
Quote from: LemonJello on March 02, 2021, 11:53:20 PM

I need a kit of this, in 1/35.

Gotta admit, it'd be a fun 2022 Group Build scale-immaterial.  Don't think there's a period kit - this was the quickest find
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/model-twin-coach-bus-35-scale-irc-76118794

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Offline Story

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Re: Bus
« Reply #47 on: March 03, 2021, 12:40:40 AM »
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Offline Story

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Re: Bus
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Re: Bus
« Reply #49 on: August 02, 2021, 07:56:39 AM »
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