Ordered this 10/2024!
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Great photos of old buses!
I have a similar liking for buses at such events. This has led me to collect a number of metal model kits. These two are examples…
I also very recently visited the bus museum on the Isle of Wight, here in the UK:
I would be very interested to see your Soviet bus model completed!
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And me too! But it won’t be very soon.
It’s warm in our Siberia now and I’m completely devoted to my second hobby: traveling around cities and museums. Since March I have only been at home half the time. During this time, I’ve traveled to 14 cities and visited 34 museums or museum sites there. I drove through some of the cities by car along a closed route of 3,700 kilometers.
By the way, I visited the event with old buses again. It’s called Transportfest and it takes place in St. Petersburg.
My previous photos are dated 2017.
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Fantastic photo’s! Thanks for posting.
I have an album on Flickr of various bus events, perhaps you would enjoy browsing, but be warned, nearly 200 pictures!
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Thank you, I’ll definitely take a look!
The number of photographs doesn’t scare me - I have more than 800 from this event alone.
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I love the shape of the windshield on the Renault bus.
Wooww…amazing photos and what a great event ? Does it take place every year ?
Great travels, thanks for sharing
How do you like Salvinos JR kits?
I was poking around for magnetos for my next top fuel project. Scored a pair of PRO-TECH printed magnetos and stumbled on this kit which comes with the driver, the dude covering his ears and the christmas tree and a ‘wired’ distributor and fuel lines
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I am slowing building the Elliot car. There are some tricks that can be used that are very helpful.
As that is an earlier modern kit, the instructions and parts have some issues. There is a number of parts that are what modelers might want but are covered up and/or difficult to see. I have left some out for this build. I wonder if the Josh Berry kit will have the similar issues. Overall not a Tamiya kit, maybe a 6/7 out 10 so far.
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@keavdog the Josh Berry instructions do have some improvements.
I left off some parts.
But you probably won’t notice.
As you cannot see much behind the brakes.
Not sure about the older NASCAR kits as I haven’t started messing with those yet.
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I finally picked the livery for my next Top Fuel rail
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I wasn’t looking for one, but couldn’t pass it up. Dirt cheap on Mercari
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Found this one for “cheap” on ebay; couldn’t resist! The plan is to jack it up to make a Search and Rescue vehicle with a quad in or on the rear box.
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I have not built a civilian subject,this will be first time,picked it up at Hobby Lobby on a 40% off sale while the wife was buying yarn.
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You made a good choice for a starter; the kit is about 60 years old but it was one of the best of it’s era. The only bad news is this boxing only includes the skinny stock tyres, not the wides for the custom wheels: this is a pity because as a beginner you won’t have any in the spares box. And speaking of your spares box a quick peruse of the instructions will show you will soon have a well-stocked one, whichever way you complete the model. There’s two complete engines, FFS! Stock is the easy way to go, but I urge you to let your imagination loose and enjoy the fun to be had creating your own “Krazy Kustom”. These are the instructions from a previous boxing which didn’t include the wide tyres either, but it’s worth noting you can only use the custom rear fenders with the skinny tyres anyway…
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I seem to recall earlier boxings included a plate with raised markings to represent a plain “chicken wire” grille which went behind the custom three-bar grille (part 319), this is simply reconstructed by cutting out of 10 thou styrene sheet using part 320 as a template, cutting an appropriate hole in front of the radiator and covering with scale plastic mesh. I suppose simply cutting from PE mesh (again using 320 as a template) is a more modern option. Apart from improving the look of 319 (whichever way up you install it) this permits you to chop up 319 and use the headlight clusters in whatever orientation you like. If you have a friend with a 1:25th bits box, you might be able to scrounge other grille and headlight components to assemble on it to create your own, personal, individual custom concept.
Regards,
M
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Well,thanks for all the advice,I mostly do armor,but I have done a GMC deuce and a half,and the Tamiya LRDG truck,so we’ll see how my skills translate.
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