"Papers Please" or how I learnt to stop worrying and embrace a short deadline

[von Lucky]

Happy to see that you've passed your funding goal overnight - all the best.

[6milPhil]

Thanks mate.

[Mason]

I have just been admiring your table on a few of the Salute videos around.
Looks like one of the highlights of the show to me.
 

One question: There is a red East Kent bus on the table seen at about the 2:10 mark here:
Where is that from?
Any details of manufacturer, code etc would be really appreciated as I could really use one of those.
 

[6milPhil]

Most generous.

Ahhh the bus, well we do have a very nice French diecast bus which after several hours we couldn't find so we substituted that. It's an AEC Regal Coach from the Corgi Collectable range, not wholly fitting into the timescale.

You can get that model model but not in EK livery from Hattons... http://www.hattons.co.uk/stocklist/1000395/1000600/1000766/0/Corgi_Collectables_1_50_Scale_Buses/prodlist.aspx

Or that very one, of a pair, via ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=diecast+buses+east+kent&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XAEC+Regal+Coach+diescast+corgi+collectable+east+kent.TRS0&_nkw=AEC+Regal+Coach+diescast+corgi+collectable+east+kent&_sacat=0

[Mason]

Cheers, Phil.

The East Kent thing is not important as I am going to slap paint on it (imagine the horror if they knew...    ).
I shall be finding the cheapest 'period' option and butchering it for the bus to Foulmouth*, so cheap is more imporatnt.

Many thanks!
 

*Foulmouth: My British Isles equivalent to Innsmouth.
 

[6milPhil]

You're welcome!

There's a certain perverse joy to unboxing a collectable diecast and hacking it, and it makes all the others more valuable so it's not all bad news for collectors.