Thoughts from Southwestbus

The following is 'in the queue' for an MBF Journal having been sent in last year in order to provide some material. It details the building process for a plastic kit from getting the box to having a completed model.  Enjoy!  Back in 2018, Peco Models brought two plastic bus kits back to the market after a long absence. The former Tower Models Leyland National and Leyland Olympian models came out in a different range of liveries and are still available from a number of different stockists, for less than £10. Older members of the MBF will no doubt recall the Tower models and will have built up numerous examples of them. As one of the younger members of the MBF, I would have been 6/7 when these kits were commonly available and my building skills at that age wouldn't have been sufficiently good to have completed a model, so these passed me by.  My late Father acquired one of the National kits in 1993, with the intention of modelling a Southern National bus at his depot. L...

Now that some 'long term' financial issues have been resolved (with personal MS Money files) southwestbus will shortly be beginning the shopping for new buses and coaches. The coaches are part of a long term strategy to reinvest in the coach fleet and ensure decent equipment for some of our customers. So, 10 Irizar i6's on Scania chassis will shortly be on their way to cider country. Alongside this, we are also going to get two more 'corporate' spec coaches for two important customers sole use.  There's also some more ADL Enviro 400 MMC's and a pair of Optare Solo SRs expected during the summer.  More next time, I was mindful of needing to put something up given a month has passed. Must try harder to put posts up here.