Some examples of our member's modelling skills are shown below.

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A scene on Andrew Layton's model railway layout (in a provincial Victorian city), showing many buses, the most prominent of which are three Bedford VALs: two with Plaxton Panorama II coach bodies (first and third) and another (earlier) one with Duple Vega Major coach body. The Plaxton-bodied coaches are built from whitemetal kits (Cotswold / Pirate Models), the Duple version is from a resin kit (Fanfare) and all are finished in fictional liveries.

Peter Greaves in country Victoria built this Southdown bus station from a Corgi OOC / Metcalfe card kit. Buses from several different manufacturers are shown here, including Corgi OOC, EFE and Britbus.

Ian Mellor owns this model built by Jeff Lynn from the Model Bus Federation (MBF) kit variant 1. It represents a Ribble all-Leyland Royal Tiger coach.

This model of a Southdown Leyland Royal Tiger coach was built by Jeff Lynn from the Model Bus Federation (MBF) kit variant 2. Note the different side and front trim as well as the different front skirt and destination panel styles when compared to the Ribble version (left).

Some Bristol LHS buses, ingeniously converted by Bob Birrell in Queensland from Tower Models Leyland National plastic kits using Model Bus Company whitemetal fronts.

Iain Drummond (also in Victoria) constructed this large scale Nissan normal control bus from a resin kit.

A Sydney Buses 14m Scania "boggibus" with Ansair Orana style bodywork, scratchbuilt  in plastic by Vince Griffiths in Queensland.

Ian Robertson in New Zealand converted the plastic Concept Models 1951 London Transport RF (AEC Regal IV) into this short (27' 6" long) LT Private Hire version, complete with roof cant windows.

 

Peter Alexander's (Victoria) diorama depicting a busy streetscape with both trams (or in U.S. parlance, street cars or trolleys) and buses in 'N' scale.

Above and right: Robert Bender has built a series of large scale models of Sydney double-deckers, in AEC, Leyland and Albion guises. Illustrated here is the AEC Regent in the later blue livery, and also a detail view of the operating hand signal device. More details are available on his web pages at http://www.acay.com.au/~pb7m/buses.html

The now defunct fleet of Deluxe Coaches lives on in Victoria, in Roger Gregory's enviable fleet of H0 scale models, all built from Weico Models whitemetal kits. Most are models of Austral Tourmaster coaches, and all exhibit structural and livery variations appropriate to the real vehicles. On the right are close-ups of two of these individual coaches.

Rod Blackburn of Canberra's scratchbuilt plastic model of a London Transport AEC 'Q' double-deck bus. This was one of only two built to this design for LT - the second one was bombed during WWII, and this one went to the country area to join two similar central-entrance buses there.

On the right is Rod Blackburn's prize-winning scratchbuilt plastic model of a London Transport Leyland TD7 (their "STD" class).  The model on the left is an LT "CR" class Leyland rear-engined Cub, built from an RTC Models whitemetal kit.

Left: Victorian member Allen Matzel modified and repainted this Leyland TD5 (now withdrawn) from an EFE PD2.  It is depicted in the rather attractive colour scheme of his fictional Knoxtrans (formerly Metrobus) fleet. On the right are some of his paper buses, including a rather interesting double-articulated M.A.N. closest to the camera.