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[truckabilly]

I painted the inside panels using revell 331 colour as the instructions say so. Some debris got into the first layer. I have taken the photo after I cleaned the surface with a fine sand paper. I will add one more layer when I have time. The floors of both decks are painted also. But, again, it takes some more care to get the final coat.

 

I cut the seats and frames from the sprues. Cleaning the 32 fragile seat frames is not exactly my idea of modelling but I finished it without any damage to a single frame.

 

 

I did not follow the instructions when painting the wheels. Instead of revell 331 I chose revell 37 with a few drops of humbrol 62. A gloss laquer and dark wash will follow.

 

 

I made a pair of pens which are a bit off scale but I put them in the cab anyway.

 

 

 

I also added a pair of cables running from the steering column to the dash board.

 

Now it takes painting and painting. I hope it will be finished within the next week. 

 

 

[Pavel A.]

Jarda, This pens are totally best detaill ever. Pavel

[truckabilly]

Painting the seat frames is almost as amusing as cutting them off the sprue and cleaning. The frames are painted with chrome alclad and red humbrol. The alclad requires a black undercoat which I sprayed over the frames at once.

 

 

I tried to minimize the waste of alclad colour, so I painted the frames one by one this time. And then I painted red humbrol with a brush. Two layers because the black undercoat made the red look a bit dull.

 

 

I started painting the seats today. I will post pictures when they are finished. I hope I won´t mess the decals.

[rctruk]

You are doing incredible work

[truckabilly]

I am back with a little bit of progress on the double-decker bus. I engraved the transmission cover on the floor of the lower deck.

 

 

 

 An emergency exit should be on the front left side of the upper deck. But the pictures of the real thing show only riveted floor mats and no visible cover. And a seat is located in that place too. So, I do not quite understand how the emergency exit is supposed to actually work. I left the the upper floor without any change.

 

 

 

The wheels are very nice in the kit but the tires are not. No lettering on the sides and the only thing that holds them in place is the ribbing on the wheel´s perimeter. The rim is everything but tight. Fortunatelly it looks okay on the outside. But I have some reservations of the system as such.

 

 

 

 

 

With a loose tire like that it is very easy to do this:

 

 

Am I supposed to glue the tires to the wheels? Not per instructions, that´s for sure.

Edited by truckabilly, 04 April 2013 - 11:16 AM.

[Tony Bryan]

Seems to be a common problem with Revell, but don't let them hold you back from doing a great job

[truckabilly]

Another phase of the seats saga began. The decals. I cut them out and organised two separate groups for the left and right side. Just as the seats and frames.

 

 

 

 

The decals represent textile fabrics. No reflection is desired. Therefore I sprayed all the seats with Humbrol´s matt varnish No. 49.

 

 

 

The photo flash produced some glare anyway but the seats look okay in normal light. I glued them to their frames. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[truckabilly]

Since I will use the PE grill, I added a few details under the driver´s cab. This area is not complete yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also the stairway is assembled. The aluminium stripes will be covered with BMF.

 

 

 

 

 

[David G.]

WOW!  What a huge project.  Excellent work so far, love all the detail you're adding!

 

David G.

[truckabilly]

The area under the driver´s cab seems to be a little empty comapared to the real Routemaster.

 

So I made a steering box and placed it in its place.

 

 

 

It will not be that much visible through the front mesh. But it fills the area a bit more anyway.

 

I cannot stop thinking of the emergency exit through the floor of the upper deck. It is covered by a plate like this.

 

This is my version. It will not be that shiny.

 

 

[truckabilly]

A little more pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[truckabilly]

Ladies and gentlemen, on board please! The upper deck has all the seats installed. I tried to fade them and shade them so that they would lose their brand-new shine. Unfortunatelly, the pics do not show this too well. The flash reduced the effect quite a lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[truckabilly]

Another step forward - the ceiling. Two ceilings, actually. It is the first time that I took a shot at preshading. I have never done that before. Those of you who master this technique at the top level will probably laugh. But I am happy that  I managed to hit  the black lines at least this way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My effort will not be much visible on the down-facing ceilings. But I wanted to try my first preshading on something less exposed before I will dare to make it on a cab or something like that.

Cheers.

[GeeBee]

 

I cannot stop thinking of the emergency exit through the floor of the upper deck. It is covered by a plate like this.

 

This is my version. It will not be that shiny.

 

 

 

 

The original Routemaster didn't have that hole in the floor, the photo you have is of an old Routemaster (RM125) run by the WRVS as a playbus, as the rear door had a door fitted, a hole was cut in the floor above the engine cover for a quick exit from upstairs, the Routemasters run in service didn't have this fitted

 

Edited by GeeBee, 28 April 2013 - 02:36 AM.