Pulp Adventure Bus, W.I.P.

[Mogimbu]

Greetings all,

I was in Yellowstone national park last year, and saw some amazing '30's buses they used to give tours.  

I thought they'd be great for some far-off adventure.  

I found a nicely scaled model in the visitor center, and took it home.  I finally had a chance to get to work on it, repainting, and refitting the seats and stuff.  The paint is in good shape now, but I still have work to do on the interior, as well as finding the polybag with all the headlamps, and other external fittings.  





That's an Artizan Para.  He's a little small, but Copplestone BoB figs look perfect.  (gotta get a pic)



I plan on adding rolled canvas roof sections, and an expedition-sized equipment rack with crates, and spare tires.  I may add a lewis gun mount as well.

Hoping to finish it up in August.

Mogimbu

[Mancha]

Nice.  Looks very Spanish Civil War.

[Bugsda]

That's fantastic, looking forward to the finished model

[Captain Blood]

Like it. Totally pulp.
Would look pretty good for Back of Beyond too, with a load of crates, bundles and cages of chickens on the roof!

Weren't they driving round in something similar in the new Indiana Jones movie? Or was that a truck? It's left a bit of a blot on my memory.

Anyway, if they weren't, they should have been! 

[Tom Reed]

That totally reminds me of Egg Foos tour bus in the movie Big Trouble in Little China!

[Mogimbu]

You're right, Tom.

Egg Chen used the same kind of bus with a different paint job, in "Big Trouble"

http://www.busesonscreen.net/screen/screenfmb.htm
(Halfway down the page)

See, it's perfect for an Adventure.

M

[Hauptgefreiter]

Here's the first passenger for Egg Chen's tour:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF02820&Category_Code=USXMin
 

[Mogimbu]

Awesome. 
What's this, magic potion?  Good, thought so"

I think I saw that movie 7 times in the theatre...

[Doomsdave]

For those that can't make it to YellowStone:



http://www.diecastdirect.com/asp_modules/catalogmfg.asp?Mfg=OT

It was buried  in that movie link above 

[Mogimbu]

Did a bit more work on the PAB this weekend:

Added the roof rack.  I made it out of a foil take-out container, and wire.  It's one piece of foil, folded and cut.  I gave it a black under-coat so the seems could show up black, under the white paint job. 




Looks like most of the original accessories may have been lost.  I found one headlight and one rearview mirror.  I used wire to make replacement grab rails, and the right-side rearview mirror.  I need to find some 'O rings for spare tires, and make some gear to put on the rack, then I can begin painting the expedition members.




Thanks for lookin'!!

[6mmfan]

Nice weathering on the bus.

You could also shorten the wheelbase and remove a couple of windows from it

Cheers
kieran

[Mr.Dodo]

That's a great project. A good find being given a good make over. Please keep posting the pics.

[Doomhippie]

Very nice! Absolutely cool work on that one!