Work starts with taking sizes from my own scale bus drawings of a Dodge S56

Using a puch and die set I created the window corners

I then joined up the corners with a craft knife & and pushed out the windows

The basic side cut free from the sheet of card. I scribed panel lines and added mouldings and a fuel filler hole

The process was repeated now for the nearside

again as before small radius holes were used in the doors and the sanded square to reduce damged to the plastic card

tooth brush is used to remove waste material

side looking good

Both side together and detailed

Now for the rear and it was a bad timeto spot my scale drawing rear window was wrong opps...

Rear window recess cut

Rear free from the sheet of plastic card

Glues together for the first time. I have laminated two sheet together and you can see that clearly here. I have not put a second sheet above the windows as this will be built up later

From the rear you can see the second laminate of card carries the window apature

Using three laminates I built a roof for the minibus giving me a thickness of 1.5mm

Another shot of the roof in place and sanded to shape

the other side

This shot shows the front angles panels in place, also you can see the EFE wheels I will be using and the white metal front end I was given for the model, sadly I have no idea who made this originally any details please contact me

Here I have glued the metal front onto the saloon and I have made a windscreen surround again from 0.5mm card

Side shot now starting to look like the real bus

The Nearside you can see the small internal door bulkhead

Sadly the front casting is damaged as you can see here over the front wheel arch, this will be fixed in the near future

You can now see I have added a floor plate which is 2 laminates of 0.5 card this had allowed me to use blue tack to hold the wheels in place for this shot

The axels are too wide and will be changed out. The front dome is made up of small section of card that have been shaped and filled