Darren B

I am dieing to get this bus built, someone on this forum or another one that I go on mentioned that in every pic you can see thru the bus thru the grill and see detail and they are right, so I got with my man at my local hobby shop and we came up with this mesh and he ordered me some from KAModels and it is pretty close to eyeballing scale in my opinion. So now that I have that done its time to start building this. Between this and the hell train ride im working on i can use the revell bus as a slump buster as I will only be building it stock, with some added engine and gearbox detail, I cant promise it will be a speedy build but lets see what I can come up with.

thanks guys for the input, thinking now maybe black red and silver, this has been the hardest as far as deciding on paint colors, i want the colors to compliment all the foam pieces to make them stand out.

this thing is insane, i have never seen such artistic craftmenship in a model! my god i see this and wonder what am i doing playing with plastic when you are creating this artwork in brass/metal. You sir are and artistic genius!!!!!!!!

Google works quick too

Yeaaaa love that movie and all that forecy thing to bad hes not gonna continue the saga i was hoping for three more flics

James it is ready for paint thing is im at a total loss on what color/colors to paint this thing!!! been searching for a long time on what and how to paint it.

John all is well thank you, didn't know that you went to the desert classic in april in Phoenix, some of my crew from the Albuquerque Model Car Club go out there and im planning on finishing this one to enter next year in the desert classic and hoping to meet you in person. Your one of my favorite builders out there and Im gonna tag along with my crew to enter this one so im on a mad dash to finish it. Hope to meet you in person next april!

and im renaming it this build to Hell Train cause its been a hell of a build and it now has a trailer so Hell train.

just a small update, did some more detail work to engine, skulls for carbs, sword valve cover and figured out how to couple trailer to truck...

got the fenders attached to the old fenders just need to clean up under the fenders to hide some of the edges.

Thank you james. I never thought of using them either till Dr.Cranky gave me the idea, that and watch parts, every model has a place for both. small update, been learning how to use my sherline lathe to make the pully set for this chevy, and oil breather cap, radiator cap.

Got the latest issue of model cars mag John Teresis bently is the bomb!

Wow love lowriders and never seems to be enough on this forum , thank you for starting this build forum. I may join in but not sure yet, really busy right now but for sure will be watching this thread with great interest!!!!

Yeah i was wondering about that grille.To bad revell didnt think of a little photo grill for the kit i think ill put mine on the back burner and she what the aftermarket comes up with on this kit. Someone may come up with a whole bunch of stuff.

how true is that i have seen so many ruined exspensive model glue bombs, video games pretty much took kids out of the hobby anyway i give my son a chance on a model or a video game he picks the video game every time.

looks photoshopped, look at front tire at the rim just does't look like it was made in 3 dimensions .

Man that really sucks sorry to hear about your job , just keep your head up and not give up looking there used to be a saying out there things happen for a reason in your case you just may find something better.

Good point night owl and good idea on the bin auction.

Thats what i meant 75.00 for a kit that probably wouldnt go any higher than 30.00 at a streatch, to me anyway is nuts, but who knows maybe some body will go for it who knows.....

Dont like ebay prices dont shop there was said here already however there comes a time when you can just be down right riduculous when it comes to certain kits and prices. Yes its his kit and he can ask whatever he wants i get that just do not think hell get any bidders......

Decided to go with this steering wheel (this build needs more spiders), over a chain steering wheel so ill make it up by adding a lot of chain license plate frames on the coffin and trailer. Had to put a bend in the column or the wheel was gonna smack the seat so to hide the fact there isn't a knuckle there for swivel joint will add a ton of barbed wire around it to hide it!

Love the jukebox idea i need one for a build i have going on right now. Also like the headphones under the rear deck idea! Gonna go try that now as well.

finally got another cutter, us cutter model sc. Not bad for the price, finally can use it again for model graphics!!! Saves you from having to do a lot of hand cutting of the same pattern over and over again.

Im the same way i have ribbons some plaques and trophies but would trade all that for the cover shot!