Thomas Vista School Bus Build

[scyeige]

Hi, built this in the last week of May... turned out quite nicely.

The model is in HO scale and is pretty straight forward. The only modification I made was to make the wheels free rolling (the original just had a 2D wheels).

Parts were scored and cut out, those that needed shaping were shaped and then glued together. I tried to give the bottom of the chassis some strength and rigidity by applying CA at the corners and on the thinner parts, but it soaked through only to 'damage' the coloring on the other side - luckily it only affected the bottom of the model. So, not a big issue, unless one is pretty anal about such things.

So, on to the pics...

[scyeige]

And pics of the finished model... enjoy

[Miles Linnabery]

Dear Scyeige:
Where is the bus model from? Nice to see 3d wheels on it.
Thanks,
MILES

[Gearhead]

Very cool. Well done.

Gearhead

[scyeige]

Hi, I got it off papermau's blog sometime ago...

Link here and the original download site from papercrafts.it

[Miles Linnabery]

Dear Scyeige:
Thanks for the links very much.
Have a nice day,
MILES

[scyeige]

No worries Miles!
If you do build it, please post... it would be nice to see the work of others