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Rapido Trains Inc. - Canada's foremost manufacturer of model trains and buses - has recently expanded into the British model market. Its recent offerings in OO and N gauge have each won "Model of the Year" in the British Model Railway Awards.

 

Rapido's recently-announced 1/87 scale "Fishbowl" New Look Bus has turned the North American model bus market on its head, offering a level of detail never before seen in a small-scale bus, including full interior with individual seats, separate grab poles, steerable front wheels and working lighting.

 

Now Rapido is turning to the British model bus market with its first 1/76 scale British bus model. The model will be announced at the Rapido Bus 3D Scanning Event on 16 July 2017 at the Transport Museum Wythall.

 

Rapido will be doing a 3D scan of a real classic British double-decker bus in order to ensure that the model matches the actual shape precisely. Rapido Managing Director Jason Shron will be on hand to answer questions about the model, the model making process, and the history of the Canadian firm.

 

Classic Birmingham City Transport and Midland Red buses will be operating on the day and rides are complimentary to all museum visitors, who will also receive complimentary badges and other Rapido swag. Complimentary tea and coffee will be provided, and light refreshments will be available to purchase.

 

Where: The Transport Museum, Wythall. Chapel Lane, Wythall Worcestershire B47 6JX

When: Sunday 16 July, noon to 3pm

Cost: Regular admission prices - Adult £4 child £2 and Family (2+2) £10 including free bus rides

Web link: http://www.rapidouk.com/rapido-bus-3d-scanning-event/

 

Rapido Trains Inc. and the Transport Museum Wythall look forward to seeing you at the Rapido Bus 3D Scanning Event.

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Ozexpatriate

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Rapido will be doing a 3D scan of a real classic British double-decker bus in order to ensure that the model matches the actual shape precisely.

That's much less of a surprise than other announcements we've seen in recent years.

 

I am confident that the final result will be fantastic and that people will complain about the price.

 

Personally I'm looking forward to the announcement one day of the Bill Schneider Models LLC, GWR B-Set.

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The outline shows an exposed radiator half cab, which narrows down the candidates among the Midland Red vehicles to a very early SOS or something acquired secondhand, which seems unlikely. The outline looks very much like a Bristol KSW, but as there isn't one resident at Wythall, that would seem unlikely also.

 

That leaves one of the West Mids PTE constituent vehicles most probably, perhaps one of the non-natives as an outsider. A Barton Duple would be nice.

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Don't forget that Rapido have form on silhouettes that don't match what they are actuall working on!

 

Now Jason has said on this forum that he thinks the world needs a super-detail Birmingham bus - and named it.

 

I think that the truth is out there.

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Here we go again. Descibing a bus (or rather its looks) by the chassis, largely unseen. The body manufacturer would be a better way of describing it.

In model form, saying a Leyland PD2, or Atlantean, or Guy Arab, etc is really meaningless. If Park Royal built the body, it would look different to a Weymann, or a Northern Counties or whatever.

Very few buses usually had the same combination of manufacturers. Bristol/ECW is one, due to their unusual partnership through being nationaliosed and not permitted to trade on the open market. Even the, there were exceptions though. Others include LT Routemaster, and other LT classes (though again different builders built some bodies that had differences).

 

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Stewart is right; buses generally need to be described by chassis and body builder. Even then, some body manufacturers had more than one style available. East Lancs seemed to change their body styling for every batch of buses they built.

Integral buses are a different story, with all Routemasters looking very similar (except the FRM!), all Leyland TN series Titans looking very similar to each other, and so on. Even there, there can be exceptions to the rule; MCW Metrobuses could be bodied by MCW themselves (the majority were), or by external coach works, such as Alexanders, who did produce several Metrobuses with their R type bodies.

Sorry to get bogged down with detail, but I hoped to show that the story can be complicated. :)

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Will it be motorised ?

:-)

 

Last week I saw a coal truck, with motorised steering driving down a OO gauge road after being loaded with coal from a loader, which had wagons discharge their loads into it..

Fantastic, looked like model helicopter technology added to the trucks front wheels.

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AEC Bridgemaster, with Park Royal bodywork.The forward entrance version. There hasn't been such a model before, as far as I know. My fingers are crossed.

 

Regards,

 

Rob.

The demonstrator did not last long in Birmingham although it did receive BCT livery. The best known preserved one is YJG807 ex-East Kent and resident far away from Wythall. Nice kit produced by Little Bus Company.

 

http://www.little-bus.com/bus-kits/bmr2.html

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Here we go again. Descibing a bus (or rather its looks) by the chassis, largely unseen. The body manufacturer would be a better way of describing it.

In model form, saying a Leyland PD2, or Atlantean, or Guy Arab, etc is really meaningless. If Park Royal built the body, it would look different to a Weymann, or a Northern Counties or whatever.

Very few buses usually had the same combination of manufacturers. Bristol/ECW is one, due to their unusual partnership through being nationaliosed and not permitted to trade on the open market. Even the, there were exceptions though. Others include LT Routemaster, and other LT classes (though again different builders built some bodies that had differences).

 

Stewart

Whilst I agree with the sentiment, having spent 30+ years in road transport I would have to say its exceptionally rare for a bus to be referred to by its body builder and even when it is, its usually coaches which are referred to as such. Where operators have their own model references - RM, TD etc - they would be used but this now seems to have fallen out of fashion. More often than not its a Dennis, Volvo etc. More modern vehicles may be referred to by their model name - Pointer, Enviro etc - but very rarely is it anything else.

 

As I think I'm right in saying you could count the number of KSWs bodied by anyone other than ECW on the fingers of one hand, and still have enough fingers left to accurately keep tally of the number of rings on the Olympic flag, I think its fair to say KSW pretty much says what it is!

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Will it be motorised ?

:-)

 

Last week I saw a coal truck, with motorised steering driving down a OO gauge road after being loaded with coal from a loader, which had wagons discharge their loads into it..

Fantastic, looked like model helicopter technology added to the trucks front wheels.

You can do that with Faller:

 

https://www.faller.de/App/WebObjects/XSeMIPS.woa/cms/page/pid.14.18.39.48/lg.en/ecm.p/car-system.html

 

You can have "pointwork" to change route stop start etc.

 

Keith

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I'd take plenty of no notice of the silhouette, as others have said Rapido have form for throwing out red herrings that are redder than anything BMMO could produce.

 

I suspect it's a 50-50 chance of it being a Rotmaster (Wythall have a Green Line version in their collection) in which case I'm out (can't stand the things, they are the Flying Jockstrap of the bus world where every half cab is now a Rotmaster) or a D9, in which case I'm bankrupt.

 

Whatever it is it will be a good excuse for a day out at Wythall.

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I'd take plenty of no notice of the silhouette, as others have said Rapido have form for throwing out red herrings that are redder than anything BMMO could produce.

 

I suspect it's a 50-50 chance of it being a Rotmaster (Wythall have a Green Line version in their collection) in which case I'm out (can't stand the things, they are the Flying Jockstrap of the bus world where every half cab is now a Rotmaster) or a D9, in which case I'm bankrupt.

 

Whatever it is it will be a good excuse for a day out at Wythall.

Maybe it will be the BMMO/BCT Tilling? :jester:

 

Keith

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