Milwaukee Road Bus. - Now with added figures.

Now with figures added. 

Some minor foot surgery was needed on some seats. But these are really cheap & nasty figures anyway.

 

 

 

The finished item. Ready to begin service on my railway.

Thanx for the photos and the ideas for doing the interiors, Nicole.  I bought one of those, last fall and simply placed it near my "Union Station".  But now, with your encouragement, I'm gonna add some people to the interior.  3rd Rail offers some seated people in 1940's - 1950's clothing and I'm going to install some of them.  Great idea! 

 

I wonder if it would be fairly easy to install some lights, headlights, taillights, maybe ICC lights, too.  Be breat to see the bus outfitted this way.

 

I also have one yellow, Yellowstone, White Motors bus and also a red, Glacier Nat'l Park, "gear jammers bus" into which I've added passengers.  these were easy to do because they both have open sun roofs, through which I inserted figures, with a little bit of glue added to their little butts.

 

Thanx again for your photos.

 

Paul Fischer

Hi Paul,

 

I'm happy to be of some help. As far as fitting lighting is concerned, there is oodles of room inside the shell to fit the electronics etc. And interior lighting should be very simple with a few LEDs. But external lighting would involve surgery to the bodywork, as all of the lights are cast into the shell and painted. But it would be a fun project, and these buses are cheap enough to allow at least one disaster to occur.

Nicole, very nice job. I should have bought a Milwaukee bus sooner. I made working headlights on my buses. Not a great picture of the bus. It's on the back left side of the street. I'm going to put passengers in mine now that I saw yours. Thanks Don

Thanks Don & Killian. I'm really pleased with this bus, and I'm seriously thinking about adding some lights to mine now. Of course, it would help greatly if I had even 1% of Don's talent for creating a lifelike scene. 

Nicole, you could have come over here and taken my old layout before I took it down. Don't know how you would have packed though. Glad you liked the old layout. Thank you. The next one will be better I hope. Don

Nicole, great about putting figures in the bus, yes, but I particularly love the way you arranged them. You arranged them very realistically, spaced out leaving everyone as much room from the other strangers as possible, with the one pair together. Great attention to detail.

Lights do make a difference in seeing the folks inside too.