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Old 12-08-2019, 03:15 PM
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Nice work Alan. If it's as good as your Harley it will be great!

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Old 12-11-2019, 03:00 AM
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Thank you Peter and Mike for your encouragement, though I think it remains to be seen how "great" the result will be.

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We come to the wheels, and a case where I have consciously departed from a reproduction of B340. In photographs of the other three restored examples, and old photographs of B-types in their original state, both front and back wheels are of apparently welded construction from flat plate and ribs. The rear wheels of B340 are similar, but the front spokes are solid with a rounded rectangular cross-section. Rather more oddly, while the left-hand front wheel has 8 spokes like everything else, the right-hand one has only 7!

London General B-type bus, 1:32-pic18.jpg
(Detail from photograph on Wikimedia.)

Now this could be authentic, but it seems to me much more likely that those wheels were sourced from other vehicles during restoration and are not original. The composite construction suits paper modelling much better, so I have gone with the majority, and made both front wheels 8-spoke and ribbed.

London General B-type bus, 1:32-pic19.jpg


Prominent features of this bus are the slatted lifeguards designed to deflect pedestrians away from the heavy rear wheels in the event of an accident. They are supported on angle-iron brackets which turned out to be rather easier to make and stronger than I was expecting. The curved mudguards over the wheels are similarly mounted.

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Old 12-11-2019, 04:27 PM
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that is an outstanding build cracking job well done
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Old 12-11-2019, 04:33 PM
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What a marvellous piece of Paper Magic... Your hands are very skilled.
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Old 12-12-2019, 03:15 PM
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Rifleman and Peter, thank you - you are most kind. I would say though that these parts were not nearly as tricky as they look. I kept putting them off because I though they would be hard, but not so. The main thing is that they can be done a little at a time and don't require five hands at once to keep the pieces in position. I'm not very good at that...

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Back to the upper deck. There were one or two minor adjustments to make, plus a change to the seat arrangement. I was aware from photographs that the rearmost seat on the right-hand side was set further back than the corresponding one on the left, but assumed that this difference would be taken up by a slightly larger seat pitch, so that the front seats on each side would be in line. I found a rather small picture of a general arrangement drawing on the London Transport Museum web site, which included a plan view showing the the seat pitch on both sides was the same, and all the seats on the right-hand side were set back from those on the left.

I felt in need of some light relief, so also prepared some of the advertisements and route listings to go on the sides and ends.

London General B-type bus, 1:32-pic22.jpg

Now it's all together, and to my relief looks fairly plausible.

London General B-type bus, 1:32-pic23.jpg London General B-type bus, 1:32-pic24.jpg

That was the state of play when I started this thread, some three months in. Yes I know I am very slow - I have bursts of activity, then periods of mooching about, pondering and generally putting off difficult bits. Eventually I can't put them off any more, and have another burst of activity...

Now to add a bit of colour to my life.
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Old 12-12-2019, 04:22 PM
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Old Bill .
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Old 12-14-2019, 02:43 AM
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wow that's just wow awesome build
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Old 12-16-2019, 06:48 AM
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Old Bill .
Yes indeed (or often "Ole Bill" as in "If you know of a better ‘ole"). This name has been applied to any B-type bus, though strictly denotes B43 as preserved at the Imperial War Museum.

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It is always a bit of a guess as to how things will turn out in the process of getting from screen to print, so I just took colours off Doug Rose's drawing and made up another simple lower saloon to see how things looked.

London General B-type bus, 1:32-pic25.jpg London General B-type bus, 1:32-pic26.jpg

Not too bad, but room for improvement. The red is OK, but needs to be more saturated. The cream for the window surrounds is about right. The brown on the underworks and driver's seat back should be a lot darker, and the "General" logo should be more golden than pale yellow. Otherwise perfect(!)

Definitely more like a London bus now.
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Old 12-16-2019, 07:09 AM
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Those wheels really came out well...
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Old 12-16-2019, 07:12 AM
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Looks good so far. It is difficult sometimes to capture an exact color. I have tried many times to get a good print out of the University of Oklahoma Sooners crimson. Sometimes too brown, sometimes too red. The quest continues.
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