Author Topic: Bus (Read 22601 times)

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?

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #1 on:** May 05, 2012, 04:02:35 AM »

If you're into that sort of thing...

raafif · « **Reply #2 on:** May 05, 2012, 05:03:23 AM »

love those Humbug busses

this one's nice too

arc3371 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 05, 2012, 05:05:00 AM »

We need a Mad Max version

raafif · « **Reply #4 on:** May 05, 2012, 09:48:45 AM »

MAN-MAX

raafif · « **Reply #5 on:** May 05, 2012, 09:51:12 AM »

Not sure why the wire-cutter on this first one ... must be something to do with driving in France

raafif · « **Reply #6 on:** May 05, 2012, 09:53:19 AM »

a few more modern ones ...

elmayerle · « **Reply #7 on:** May 05, 2012, 11:03:58 AM »

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).

raafif · « **Reply #8 on:** May 06, 2012, 08:53:56 AM »

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #9 on:** January 01, 2013, 10:29:02 AM »

The bus in this image 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.

raafif · « **Reply #10 on:** January 01, 2013, 02:08:38 PM »

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 !

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #11 on:** January 01, 2013, 02:30:58 PM »

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 :)

Frank3k · « **Reply #12 on:** January 02, 2013, 02:49:57 AM »

Quote from: elmayerle on May 05, 2012, 11:03:58 AM

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):

Battling buses of World War II - next stop: Fuhrerville!

from http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130175&page=2

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #13 on:** January 02, 2013, 03:06:09 AM »

Quote from: Frank3k on January 02, 2013, 02:49:57 AM

I vaguely remember that one. Here's one of the drawings (in Popular Mechanics style):

Battling buses of World War II - next stop: Fuhrerville!

from http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130175&page=2

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.

raafif · « **Reply #14 on:** January 02, 2013, 03:43:41 AM »

a couple of my perverted ideas .....

postwar Mk.I armoured bus for London commuters who never got over the threat of bombing by Zeppelin ....

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #15 on:** January 02, 2013, 03:52:24 AM »

Quote from: raafif on January 02, 2013, 03:43:41 AM

a couple of my perverted ideas .....

postwar Mk.I armoured bus for London commuters who never got over the threat of bombing by Zeppelin ....

Ideal solutions for car-jacking and potholes in many of the larger metropolitan areas :)

Scooterman · « **Reply #16 on:** January 02, 2013, 04:21:38 AM »

Me love me some Tundra (type) Bus

kitnut617 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 02, 2013, 04:50:20 AM »

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

The Big Gimper · « **Reply #18 on:** January 02, 2013, 04:55:46 AM »

The family did the Columbia Ice Fields tours in 2004. The bus trip started off down a 45^o slope. Put your hands in the air.

Two of these buses are/were shipped to Antarctica.

It's called the Terra Bus.

raafif · « **Reply #19 on:** January 02, 2013, 07:57:35 AM »

Quote from: The Big Gimper on January 02, 2013, 04:55:46 AM

It's called the Terra Bus.

You got the spelling wrong ... should be Terror Bus !

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

raafif · « **Reply #20 on:** January 02, 2013, 08:00:43 AM »

Here's that Italian Maultier model I mentioned, an armoured Israeli "school-bus" & the armoured Winebago ....

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #21 on:** January 02, 2013, 08:06:52 AM »

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?

raafif · « **Reply #22 on:** January 02, 2013, 08:46:59 AM »

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.

Remember the BIG BUS ...

kitnut617 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 02, 2013, 08:50:12 AM »

Quote from: raafif on January 02, 2013, 08:00:43 AM

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.

Weaver · « **Reply #24 on:** January 02, 2013, 09:31:40 AM »

Looking at that snow coaches article, you could easily build something like this from the Dapol (ex Airfix) railbus kit and some tank parts:

from here

raafif · « **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

kitnut617 · « **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.

raafif · « **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

Mark Aldrich · « **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

LemonJello · « **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"?

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #30 on:** January 12, 2013, 01:41:13 AM »

Other than the right hand drive, that Araii bus is perfect :)

jcf · « **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

Jeffry Fontaine · « **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.

Alvis 3.1 · « **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

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #34 on:** January 13, 2013, 02:33:09 AM »

Great idea!

raafif · « **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

Logan Hartke · « **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

kitnut617 · « **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)

Weaver · « **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.....

Weaver · « **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....

Story · « **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.

Story · « **Reply #41 on:** November 13, 2019, 03:42:28 AM »

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/

Story · « **Reply #42 on:** March 02, 2021, 11:15:58 PM »

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I know damn well some of you remember this.

Story · « **Reply #43 on:** March 02, 2021, 11:19:56 PM »

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://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/5-reasons-route-irish-was-the-most-nerve-racking-road-in-iraq/

kitnut617 · « **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 ---

LemonJello · « **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.

Story · « **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