Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Land => Topic started by: Daryl J. on May 05, 2012, 04:00:49 AM
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Rat rod this!
(http://rodenkits.com/img/products/152_300_1332855896.png)
Or reproduce a real one to full Hot August Nights standards, and go cruising on summer weekends.
Isn't this bus a lovely?
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If you're into that sort of thing... ;)
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love those Humbug busses :-*
this one's nice too
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/bus.jpg)
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We need a Mad Max version
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MAN-MAX
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Not sure why the wire-cutter on this first one ... must be something to do with driving in France ???
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a few more modern ones ...
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For some reason, this whole thread reminds me of an "article" in Nation Lampoon's Encyclopedia of Humor, "Battle Buses of World War II". Mind you, that came out 38 years ago, but certain items in that publication definitely stuck with me (the faux VW advert, especially).
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The bus in this image http://militarymodels.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/Reichs-Bus.jpg (http://militarymodels.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/Reichs-Bus.jpg) got me to wondering what it would look like with the running gear from one of the larger German Sd.Kfz series half-track vehicles.
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They did build a few ½-track offices ..... this one below is one of six built for the German coast-guard in 1943.
I have seen a model of an Italian WW2 (FIAT ?) bus body on a Maultier chassis ... looked sexy !
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Raffif,
That bus is kind of stumpy looking in that image you shared, looks like it was based on one of the smaller 1t 1-ton class Sd.Kfz. 10 or 3-ton class Sd.Kfz. 11 half-tracks. I was imagining that with the much longer bus body in that image I linked that it might be better to use a larger vehicle such as the 5-ton class Sd.Kfz. 6, 8-ton class Sd.Kfz. 7, or maybe the 12t Sd.Kfz. 8. Just what you would need to go over-landing in style :)
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For some reason, this whole thread reminds me of an "article" in Nation Lampoon's Encyclopedia of Humor, "Battle Buses of World War II". Mind you, that came out 38 years ago, but certain items in that publication definitely stuck with me (the faux VW advert, especially).
I vaguely remember that one. Here's one of the drawings (in Popular Mechanics style):
(http://www.tcj.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/war-bus.gif)
Battling buses of World War II - next stop: Fuhrerville!
from http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130175&page=2 (http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130175&page=2)
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I vaguely remember that one. Here's one of the drawings (in Popular Mechanics style):
([url]http://www.tcj.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/war-bus.gif[/url])
Battling buses of World War II - next stop: Fuhrerville!
from [url]http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130175&page=2[/url] ([url]http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130175&page=2[/url])
Little boy: "Grandpa, what did you do in the war?"
Old man: "I was a door gunner on an assault bus."
The stuff that dreams are made of in some of those old graphic illustrations from PM, PS, and MI.
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a couple of my perverted ideas .....
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/RMB1.png)
postwar Mk.I armoured bus for London commuters who never got over the threat of bombing by Zeppelin ....
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/LTDD2.png)
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a couple of my perverted ideas .....
([url]http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/RMB1.png[/url])
postwar Mk.I armoured bus for London commuters who never got over the threat of bombing by Zeppelin ....
([url]http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s34/hobgrot/LTDD2.png[/url])
Ideal solutions for car-jacking and potholes in many of the larger metropolitan areas :)
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Me love me some Tundra (type) Bus
(http://billcaid.com/2009/AlaskaRoadTrip20090521/Part5/JPEG/img-11.jpg)
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When some of our family from the UK came visiting this summer, we went on one of those up onto the glacier Scoot'. they're made by Foremost
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The family did the Columbia Ice Fields tours in 2004. The bus trip started off down a 45o slope. Put your hands in the air. ;D
Two of these buses are/were shipped to Antarctica.
It's called the Terra Bus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_coach).
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It's called the Terra Bus ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_coach[/url]).
You got the spelling wrong ... should be Terror Bus ! ;D
Actually I can see that U.S. Assault Bus as part of a Cold-War Allied pre-emptive strike on Russian control of East Germany .... bus heads into Berlin & crashes thru Checkpoint Charlie taking over the control-point. Others head east as part of a cultural-visit by a military orchestra ..... over the Gleineke Bridge .... attack various Soviet check-points & bases along the way .....
Imagine the same mad colonel from Dr Stangelove transferred to a West German base ;D ;D
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Here's that Italian Maultier model I mentioned, an armoured Israeli "school-bus" & the armoured Winebago ....
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The armored Winnebago is awesome! Looks a bit anemic with the small wheels. Maybe better if it were build around something larger like a five tonner with AWD?
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yeah, bigger wheels would be better for off-road but it did survive a near miss by IED in Iraq. A bus company bought a few of these for the less friendly areas of Nthn Ireland.
Here's a weird one ... the "Decapitator" !! made during WW2 to transport US workers to factories - plywood body.
(http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/03/SantaFeTrailwaysplywoodbus_02_resized.jpg)
Remember the BIG BUS ...
(http://beck-images.s3.amazonaws.com/it3_01.jpg)
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Here's that Italian Maultier model I mentioned, an armoured Israeli "school-bus" & the armoured Winebago ....
My wife's Dad was in the Brit Army, when they were stationed in Hong Kong she told me they used to go to school in armoured buses everyday, and sometimes the window plates had to be in position.
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Looking at that snow coaches article, you could easily build something like this from the Dapol (ex Airfix) railbus kit and some tank parts:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/EarlySnowCoach3961.JPG/800px-EarlySnowCoach3961.JPG)
(http://www.dapol.co.uk/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/41cc27df41fbbf6def5e01c4a5656af1.jpg)
from here (http://www.dapol.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=121&category_id=25&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=59)
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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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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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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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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 (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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For those of us that build in 1/35 Armor scale, ARII makes several 1/32 buses that could easily be "Doomsdayed" OUT!!!
[url]http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=1%2F32+arii+bus&_sacat=0&_odkw=1%2F32+bus&_osacat=0&_from=R40[/url] ([url]http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=1%2F32+arii+bus&_sacat=0&_odkw=1%2F32+bus&_osacat=0&_from=R40[/url])
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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Other than the right hand drive, that Araii bus is perfect :)
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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 (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 (http://www.internetmodeler.com/2007/november/first-looks/fujimi_s'elega.php)
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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.
[url]http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/list/1824/3/1[/url] ([url]http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/list/1824/3/1[/url])
Here is an inbox of a Fujimi Hino S'Elega:
[url]http://www.internetmodeler.com/2007/november/first-looks/fujimi_s'elega.php[/url] ([url]http://www.internetmodeler.com/2007/november/first-looks/fujimi_s'elega.php[/url])
Verra nice! Much nicer than the clunky Araii school bus clones.
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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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Great idea!
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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 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=2535.0)
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Alright, guys. I found a picture of a bus for you guys to have some whiffing fun with. It's a Lancia.
(http://www.lancia.com/com/publishingimages/history/modelhistory/industriali3.jpg)
Cheers,
Logan
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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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Rat rod this!
([url]http://rodenkits.com/img/products/152_300_1332855896.png[/url])
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:
(http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/rod/images/rod_0724_title.jpg)
That really needs a pair of air-cooled Spandaus on top of the bonnet.....
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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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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 (https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DQm17Q9Lqbk/VsFIh7HTInI/AAAAAAAAFg0/vToSTNGfcu0/s1600/anti_6.gif).
The crew dressed up as farmers, women, etc.
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Yellow Land Submarine
White 706
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/09/13/big-yellow-different-yellowstone-used-white-706-bus-lets-all-the-light-in/ (https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/09/13/big-yellow-different-yellowstone-used-white-706-bus-lets-all-the-light-in/)
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When you've lived long enough to see parody become actual products
http://www.roden.eu/HTML/720.html (http://www.roden.eu/HTML/720.html)
http://www.roden.eu/HTML/721.html (http://www.roden.eu/HTML/721.html)
http://www.roden.eu/HTML/723.html (http://www.roden.eu/HTML/723.html)
http://www.roden.eu/HTML/724.html (http://www.roden.eu/HTML/724.html)
http://www.roden.eu/HTML/725.html (http://www.roden.eu/HTML/725.html)
http://www.roden.eu/HTML/726.html (http://www.roden.eu/HTML/726.html)
http://www.roden.eu/HTML/728.html (http://www.roden.eu/HTML/728.html)
http://www.roden.eu/HTML/729.html (http://www.roden.eu/HTML/729.html)
I know damn well some of you remember this.
(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/19/72/bc/1972bc2bf3374bf7ae65d6c8c4d9e517.jpg)
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I rode this once, from BIAP to the Green Zone, during the calm-and-boring times.
Spectacularly unimpressive cattle car.
https://arrowstagelines.com/worlds-toughest-bus-regular-route-downtown-baghdad/ (https://arrowstagelines.com/worlds-toughest-bus-regular-route-downtown-baghdad/)
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/5-reasons-route-irish-was-the-most-nerve-racking-road-in-iraq/ (https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/5-reasons-route-irish-was-the-most-nerve-racking-road-in-iraq/)
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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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I know damn well some of you remember this.
(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/19/72/bc/1972bc2bf3374bf7ae65d6c8c4d9e517.jpg)
I need a kit of this, in 1/35.
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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 (https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/model-twin-coach-bus-35-scale-irc-76118794)
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1938 ZIS 16
https://getoutlines.com/blueprints/car/zis/zis-16-bus.gif (https://getoutlines.com/blueprints/car/zis/zis-16-bus.gif)
UK bus, model/year unknown
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/dJET1EhbZgiocW8CS2BdxMu6b3sxC1m35EpGAuw_lcYYQDGY5Y7dfc2vlpb_vasIeIpuPTVVvJi2ZAM9oBKyQiaGaM06LHEOpYYHoaWLtKqDuod5m7g2WNsjFXf9-O_osgY4r87xaUb14iEgALcij9tm84napZ1bqQ9omtsZVfdQwkNq4wpO (https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/dJET1EhbZgiocW8CS2BdxMu6b3sxC1m35EpGAuw_lcYYQDGY5Y7dfc2vlpb_vasIeIpuPTVVvJi2ZAM9oBKyQiaGaM06LHEOpYYHoaWLtKqDuod5m7g2WNsjFXf9-O_osgY4r87xaUb14iEgALcij9tm84napZ1bqQ9omtsZVfdQwkNq4wpO)
Not gonna be cheap - found this modern design on shapeways. Probably could do it up 1950s USAF style.
https://www.shapeways.com/product/RRPB7SYE3/1-35-mci-mc-12-coach-shell?optionId=63591829&li=marketplace (https://www.shapeways.com/product/RRPB7SYE3/1-35-mci-mc-12-coach-shell?optionId=63591829&li=marketplace)
If you poke around, there's probably vintage designs in smaller scale offerings.
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Pretty sure this piece of art has cropped up here before.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cc/6a/b2/cc6ab2af0f2d2eb304428be3eba8b39b.jpg)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4401610 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4401610)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2790393 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2790393)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2734125 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2734125)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3391820 (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3391820)
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Pre-War African Land Yacht
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/1939_International_Jungle_Yacht_Truck%2C_Commander_Gatti.jpg)
(https://img1.etsystatic.com/135/1/8127930/il_570xN.990520709_t48j.jpg)
https://1940s.org/commander-gattis-jungle-yacht-and-african-expedition (https://1940s.org/commander-gattis-jungle-yacht-and-african-expedition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZvZSRq4A4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZvZSRq4A4)
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Those are great links! The land yacht looks like something Mad magazine or National Lampoon would have come up with.
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Those are great links! The land yacht looks like something Mad magazine or National Lampoon would have come up with.
Or worthy of an obscure AIRFIX release
(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/302706897413_/Vintage-Airfix-Tarzan-Figures-Airfix-HO-OO.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YmpUVBz.jpg?1)
I wouldn't be surprised if the National Lampoon creators knew about Gatti.