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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2014
- My attempt at lighting the Revell bus kit. These are the links to some still pictures of it as well as some of my other builds:
www.flickr.com/photos/9513158...
www.flickr.com/photos/9513158...
For those interested in how I did the mods and adapted the kit, these are some still pictures of the build:
www.flickr.com/photos/9513158... - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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Wow, just wow!! I haven't been back to London in ages, and Routemasters were a part of my daily life back then. Could help falling in love with this indestructible beauty. Planning to be back soon, and hoping to at least see the ones doing the Heritage route. Thanks for this beautiful upload!
Mine too. Thanks for your comment.
London Transport did actually plan to take all of the RM's off the road as they did not meet the requirements of todays vehicles relating to air polution, but had to change their plans due to public demand. That allows for the younger generations to get a feel of what it was like to travel on these buses and experience stepping on and off the rear platform whenever and wherever the bus slowed or waited in traffic (unlike today where you have to wait for the bus to stop and the doors opened by the driver).
What a beautiful model! It must be amazing to have a piece of London history you can keep in your home. it looks particularly realistic in a dim or night scene as it really shows off the lighting and gives it a you-are-there feeling to it. Well done sir!
Thanks Znen. I really appreciate your comment.
I used to travel on these to school in the 1960's and I wanted to reproduce the atmosphere of that era before everything went high tech. I must admit that I really like this particular kit though I don't usually praise my own work at all. The Neoplan Cityliner turned out well too: th-cam.com/video/sk1I72pZbiw/w-d-xo.html
But the RM is my pride and joy.
What you have achieved here is nothing less than FANTASTIC ! a superb model {i have just purchased the kit} and i am excited by the amount of detail/parts etc. I hope i can do the model full justice in the same way you have yours. Congrats to you :-)
Peter Taft
Thankyou for your kind comments Peter. I always appreciate good feedback.
Good luck with the build and hope to see the finished item shown on You Tube. I must say that the kit was a pleasure to put together. All the parts were of high quality with no sprue flashes and every part fitted perfectly.
Just take your time, do some homework on the web and you will have a kit to be proud of.
What a coincident, I was in London a week ago, visited the transport museum and saw they had a Revell 1:24 kit of an AEC Routemaster in the shop and I through it would be cool to put lights in it, but at the end i did not buy it. This looks damn, sweet. Nice to see that there is someone out there who came before me with that idea.
Thanks, I hope you enjoyed your trip to London. It's an amazing city. I'm glad that you did not buy it in the end, as London is very expensive (as you must have noticed) and you can buy this kit on the Internet for probably half the price you would pay for it in London.
I tried to create the atmospere of when I used these buses when I travelled to school in London. The lighting was a yellow colour and the ceilings were stained with tobacco smoke. I now live on the south coast of England and go back to London often, but I have yet to visit the transport museum.
They still run these buses in London and there is so much more atmosphere on them then there is on the other buses.
If you do buy the kit you could just add a few lights to the seating areas. I have lots of tips on my flikr page www.flickr.com/photos/95131586@N07/sets/72157633450701706/
Absolutely fantastic .... brilliant.....best model build of a Routemaster I have seen.....the interior lighting is just great... well done ... I would love to have this.....
Thanks Simon. I always appreciate good feedback and the appreciation of what goes into lighting these model kits. It motivates me to keep doing more.
Great job,well done,love the lighting for extra realism,very cleverly done.
Richard Berry
Thanks, Richard. Appreciate your comment and for taking the time to view the video.
that is absolutely brilliant. I think it's time to build my own ☺ thank you for the upload
Thanks for your comment. Really appreciate good feedback. Good luck with your build and hope to catch some pictures or video when it is finished. Please let me know.
I have added some useful links at the top which show still pictures of the kit and also how I converted the bus for lighting.
Amazing. I was bought one of these models for christmas and so excited to build it.
Thanks. Glad to see that you are so keen and look forward to seeing your progress.
The rich green trees, the rush of people in the city, the hum of the traffic, the black cab and the old Routemaster bus, make a perfect day out in London..............
Agreed.
ukbanditkp where did you get the transfers for the blinds as I want to do a camberwell route with the model kit i have got
Hi Ron, I just printed the routes on a laser printer on plain paper with a matt finish as it gave an old cloth appearance. I have since found this site with a list of routes but I'm not sure what era they cover: www.londonbuses.co.uk/
That is an outstanding build. Very well done.
+Manuel Haenle
Many thanks for your kind comments. Good feedback is always encouraging.
I love the Routemasters, I have to try and order a kit from my usual supplier here in OZ, I think you've done a fantastic job and hopefully copy yours to the same standard, I love it.
Thank you, I miss the RMLs.
*****
Thanks for the compliment Steve. How easy is it to obtain these kits in Oz and are they expensive?
I always hope that my kit will inspire others to have a go and improve on my attempt. There are so many variations you can do with this kit.
If you are interested I have also made the Neoplan Cityliner with lights, which you can find by clicking on my video links. Next to be uploaded is my Simba airport fire truck with a full compliment of lights.
great sound on startup great bus
wow..amazing..this is brilliant..thank you for sharing.
Thank you, Thomas, for viewing the video and posting nice comments. I think the way the model was moulded was a big help, so ats off to Revell on this model.
The best, most useable and most comfortable buses London ever had. I miss 'em
i have done mine did not think of lighting you have done good job great lighting
Thankyou for spending the time to post your comments. Feedback (good or bad) is always appreciated.
I did try to create the atmosphere of the lighting on these buses in the 1960's (and the yellow nicotine stained ceiling).
That is brilliant and the lighting lifts it to a whole new level
I can almost feel Iwas in the real thing
I have one I haventnt started
Iwant to change the route to 41 as this is the bus Icaught to school
RML were often used on the route and itcalready has the Tottenham Garage code AR in the kit used for tue 76.
Pity they dont make an RT or one of the variants like rtl or rtw
Thanks Steven. Glad that you could feel the atmosphere as well. Every one seems to remember the sickly yellow of the interior ceiling, stained by endless cigarette smoke, etc.
I'd rather Revell had done the RT's too as they had a lot more charactor to them and they featured so much in my childhood.
I used to catch the 41 up to Turn Pike Lane then change to a 231 or 217 these were all RTs
The 41 was predominately RMs but sometimes we got an RTL and on rare occasions an RTW.
The RTWs were Tottenham buses but were the mainstay of the 76s
I can still remember the experimental silver RM that was usedon rhe 123 to Tottenham Hale
Still miss the trolleybuses
LA PERFECCIÓN!!!!!!
REALLY PERFECT !!!!👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much Cesar.
Amazing
Thanks, Henry. Appreciate your comment.
I have a kit and i am going to do the same thing and thank-you i can see how you put the top beck of lights in and it will be going in to my local show next year the bus and my son will be helping to wire it up . I live in Australia.
That's great to hear Julie. I wish I had the confidence to put my kits into a show.
I have updated the links above and one of them shows a lot of the ways I achieved the lighting and modifications.
I hope that you put some pictures on You Tube when it is complete. Please feel free to post a link to them here if you do.
Thank you Ukbanditkp
You're welcome Julie.
Regards
Kevin
Don't be put off by the challenge of copying what I have done. If you need help or inspiration, just visit my flickr page at:
www.flickr.com/photos/95131586@N07/sets/72157633450701706/
hi. I like your kit. i first noticed it few months ago. I just finish another one of mine and would like to try this. any possibility to get your mail to send you few additional questions? thanks, tomas
Is amazing when you lit up the where the number are 109 how did you do it i would like to do the same with my bus . when i build my bus i am going to have it pulled in a bus stop and i am going to even put lights on the bus stop and street light poles as well and i am going to paint up a board like is road i am going to make it look real as possible and i am going to use the Piccadilly Circus. I will be using number 38 on my bus.
You've done a fantastic job on this! I'm just about to buy one of these and want to convert to a 101 that used to serve my old home town of East Ham. A quick question - how did you create the seat fabric? It looks great and very realistic.
Hi and thank you for your good feedback. I sourced the fabric pattern from the Internet. I found a site that showed small pictures of the different seat fabrics used by London Transport. From that I created a large square which could be printed. A colour laser printer would be advisable: www.flickr.com/photos/95131586@N07/albums/72157633450701706
hi,love the lighting on your revell routemaster,just bought the kit,can you tell me where you got your led and resistors from and what size and ratings they are please, would love to do what you did with the lighting many thanks d burton
Hi David. Thanks for you kind comment.
I bought my LED's, etc, from Bright Components on Ebay but they are a UK based company. I find their products are of good quality whereas some of the very cheap LED's tend to be fragile and break when you bend the legs of them.
I mainly used 3mm LED's for the lights and 1.8mm LED's for the route boxes, etc, and I would advise using Kynar wire as it is very thin but flexible.
This link includes pictures of how I built the bus. I hope it helps:
flic.kr/s/aHsmTTdNZL
The bus is brilliant nice work! Where did you get the lighting? Where it is aluminum I sprayed black then went over in gun grey to represent grime.
Thanks Dennis. Appreciate your comments.
I had an uncle that worked as an engineer of these but he died many years ago. It would have been nice ot have discussed the details more. I was surprised that the kit colour scheme showed the underside as silver and was thinking of doing it in a much darker colour but decided to stick with the silver. I usually do most of my vehicle kits in Gun grey, It's a nice shade.
I bought all of the LED's on Ebay along with most of the other electrical items.
Thanks for your kind comments. I have seen that others have used colours similar to that. If I did this kit again a probably would do the same. All the LED's for the lighting were sourced from Ebay, though you have to be careful with who you buy them from as some are cheap and nasty.
When you done the wiring for the bus where did you put each resistor and how many did you use resistors .
Hi Julie
Usually with my builds I try to hide the resistors within the body of the model so that I only have the wires coming out of it and into the switch box. With this kit I actually fitted the resistors within the switch box, which meant have a larger switch box than I really needed for the switches. If I did this build again I would probably fix the resistors to the underside of the main body as they would not be seen unless turned upside down. I cover the resistors with heat shrink so they do not interfere with each other. The heat generated is very small so that should not be a problem.
From memory I used one resistor for the headlights, 1 for all of the blind lights, 1 for the front and rear side lights, 1 for the upstairs cabin lights, 1 for the downstairs cabin lights. By adding several LED's to one resistor it tended to dim the LED's down a little to give a more realistic appearance from the 1960's. Hope this helps.
yes it did and thankyou for the info.
You've done a great job with this bus.
How easy was it to connect the lighting & how long did it take to add the lighting?
Terence Burgess
Thanks for your comment Terence. Well it took about 4 weeks, at a couple of hours per day and about 6 hours at the weekend.
I spent a week studying the instructions to work out the wire routing and adjustments required and working out the LED's I needed, before sourcing them on the Internet. I also had to work out how I could illuminate the route headers and rear lights without the adjustments being seen. For ideas and tips on how I achieved this, it may be worth a visit to my Flikr page www.flickr.com/photos/95131586@N07/sets/72157633450701706/
I have since discovered thinner wire (Kynar) which wouold have been far better and would have meant less adjustment needed. Oh well.
I used 4 AA batteries to light the whole thing and warm white LED's as they provided more realistic lighting for that era.
Hope this helps.
Do the figures come with the kit?
Would like get for my SunStar model!
The figures don't come with the kit but I ordered a large pack on Ebay. They did not cost much and came from China. The quality of them is not brilliant but with some trimming and painting you can get them looking passable. I hope this helps.
I have the bus too, could you tell us more about the ads please ?
Hi Adrian. The decals that you get with the kit are mainly for the 'modern' era but to get the adverts for past era's I trawled the Internet. You can download the images and resize them in any picture editing program and print them out on a colour printer. The only other way is to make your own decals but that is quite involved. Hope this helps. Here are a couple of links that may help:
www.flickr.com/photos/kingswayjohn/6576562507
www.britishmodelbuses.com/London%20Bus%20Repaints%20and%20Transfers%20LBRT.htm
Hi, can I ask, where did you get the people from? :)
Hi Jo
I bought the figures from Ebay:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20pcs-G-Scale-1-25-Painted-vary-poses-ages-Model-Train-Passenger-People-Figures-/251039381316?ssPageName=ADME:L:OC:GB:3160
They came from China so took a couple of weeks to arrive, but it was worth the wait as they are quite sturdy and were already painted (though I repainted them myself).
They were the nearest scale I could get for the 1:24 scale Routemaster Bus and the cheapest. He sells several types of figures too.
Hope this helps
Much appreciated chap!
Hi I want add figures in the 1/24 RM scale bus. Do they call it G scale 1/24 scale I don't what you would call them. Cheers sue
Hi Sue
The ones I bought were G scale which seemed to be the right scale.
hi what red did you use please
mick
Hi Mick.
I built this kit before I invested in an Airbrish kit and used a Revell spray can (100ml Fiery Red Gloss Acrylic number 031).
Hope this helps.
Much appreciated for your help a few weeks ago. The figures have yet to be re-painted, but what do you think to it so far? : www.flickr.com/photos/111885374@N05/16180423316/in/photostream/
M.Joseph Jintyman
Just goes to show how a few figures can creat a great atmosphere. Looks good.
Blinds are inaccurate. Apart from that - very good.
Thankyou for your appreciation. At the time I just could not find the data of this route, which I used every day to get to school in the 60's from Brixton to Waterloo Station. Since then I have managed to find the correct route but obviously it is too late for this build.
Why is it that the bus is so brilliant but the people are so crudely painted and detailed?
Thanks for the compliment. Unfortunately to get figures in this scale from the UK sometimes costs more than the kit, so the only other choice is to buy the figures from China where they are mass produced for pennies. The plastic used is of such low quality that painting them is not an easy option. Also, thay are mainly there to give the model some atmosphere.
Kevin Winyard what about a miniture figurine of a bus inspector?
Matthew Jackson
Not a bad idea Matthew. I will have to work on that.
I have found this on ebay . www.ebay.com.au/itm/SS-100pcs-Painted-Model-Train-Passenger-People-Figures-Scale-1-150/322589517402?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
found this lot as well www.ebay.com.au/itm/30-Painted-Model-Train-Railway-All-Seated-People-Passenger-Figures-1-87-HO-Scale/331540232570?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
Would you be willing to sell lighting kits for this ??
Hi Derbys65, unfortunately I would not be able to supply a kit for this as I basically sourced the LED's from Ebay and did not keep a list of items used.
ok thanks anyway bud