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Complete! Quite a few people have built the Revell Routmaster model and I've seen a lot at various shows in the last year, so I wanted to do something different and personal. Back in the dim and distant past that was the 1970s I used to take the bus from my home village of Swanscombe in Kent to Gravesend to attend Gravesend School for Boys. The bus I invariably caught was a 480 whose route took it from the eastern side of Gravesend, Denton or Valley Drive all the way along the busy industrial North West Kent roads to Dartford and Erith. This was an ara of heavy industry, paper mills, printing factories and most of all cement factories. Blue Circle had the biggest cement factory in Europe on the banks of the Thames in Northfleet and Swanscombe also had its own cement works, in the shadow of whose chimney I grew up. As a result, the buses were a mess, always dirty. Added to the fact that this was a provincial bus company so its advertising opportunities were not as great as the London buses so adverts changed frequently and often were not even present. Then I found this superb photo: How about that for weathering? So inspiration struck and this is the result: I did have some issues with the decals for the "London Country" logos - the yellow is too faint on transparent decal paper so I had to try to match the background green on the decal which wasn't entirely successful and I've run out of white decal paper, but got some more on order so when that arrives I'll have another go with a rage of greens to get a better match. However, in the meantime I'm very happy with the end result- 38 replies
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