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‘Suicide bus’ build! 1/24 Bajan Hiace bus


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Following a great holiday in Barbados there is a few Bajan models planned, first is a ZR bus, or as we called the Suicide buses. 
they come up behind you and blow a dixi horn to see if you want a lift, it’s BB$3.50 flat fare and they absolutely fly along!

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that’s not my photo but shows what I’m looking at building. Brought a Aoshima Hiace kit in 1:24 to make a start…..

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looks good but the roof is too low. After looking at it a few days I remembered a cheap Merc Sprinter van toy I got at a car boot a few years ago, chopped the roof off, but it was too long and wide so it needed a lot of hacking to get any where close to working, but it’s on, it’s rough, it will needed a stack of work but I’ve got it glued on!

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Just need to order a few buckets of filler and a stack of sanding equipment 🤣

Oh, and it’s red, so that will be fun to get painted white and not pink 😭

off we go…..

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On 8/4/2022 at 7:45 PM, richellis said:

Oh, and it’s red, so that will be fun to get painted white and not pink

I think the idea is to paint it yellow first. Nice work on the roof.

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