Moving along from the last post, here we have the front of the bus painted and weathered...
and the side view showing the driver's door. Its a shame they don't give you the option of having the driver's door open!
Next is the dents I've added into the roof - particularly at the front!
The purple is the masking fluid going on to help with the paint chipping and wear later. This amount of damage is not excessive, but usually found at the front, particularly on the kerb side from impacts with tree branches and so on.
The windows have been masked up to allow painting the opening mechanisms and frames:
Lots of windows!!!
Finally in this update, I've been working on the figures that will populate the bus interior, so let us first start with the conductor:
Here you see him with the first fittong of the belts for the ticket mahcine and change bag. These were all made from
tamiya tape. The wide straps will be painted black and I'll be adding some silver clasps and hooks using some leftover cockpit PE from the spares box. I'm quite pleased with how the ticket machine came out. I salvaged some scraps from the spares box, including some old PE for the really small details.
The rest of the passengers are a motley assortment:
The faces have received and initial oil wash, which will need some touching up to remove the various "black eyes" that some of them appear to have acquired! The shinyness is from the oil washes they've received after the matt paint had been applied. There are two versions of the same figure, but I'll put one upstiars and one downstairs to keep them apart so its less noticable. Pity there aren't any more sitting dwon figures in this collection. Personally I think the bloke in the hat is rather supicious, sitting with his hands in his pockets liek that with so many women around!!!