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To be released late this year, there will be 2 different models.
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I cant wait :o
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:shock:

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I can't wait to see a photo of this bus on the Trux website!
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I wonder if the liveries are UTA/STA corporate :?:
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I can see that over time they could be produced in all past PTC/UTA/STA liveries, as well as a few privates.

Shouldn't be too hard to turn a Mk 2 into into a Mk 3, just to keep the lines rolling.
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OOOOOOOOOOO
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be nice if they do an Adelaide 0305 aswell
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Probably isn't so hard to modify the castings for any O305 body given they all look 95% the same anyway. Suppose it depends on how much interest they get with the Sydney ones.
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Good news to see a new tooling of a classic. They will be able to do a fair amount of these. I was hoping for a denning landseer or a domino tourmaster though, maybe next year.....
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aussie_ozfire wrote:Good news to see a new tooling of a classic. They will be able to do a fair amount of these. I was hoping for a denning landseer or a domino tourmaster though, maybe next year.....
I think coaches have had a good run and the need for route buses is just as high.

I still am eager to see a Fuji artic model, it may not be an Aussie built bus but they were seen in a few states and in a large variety of liveries.

For an Aussie route bus that was seen in a few states and many liveries bring on the MTT Adelaide 3 door worldmaster & AEC Regal :)
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I can't wait!!!! I'm interested in seeing which liveries they come in.
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I wonder if they will do any Perth units with the air cooling pods on top that we have had.
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Transperthpaperbus wrote:I wonder if they will do any Perth units with the air cooling pods on top that we have had.
Doing a Perth one would be just like doing an Adelaide one, it will require re-tooling from the Sydney one.
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The three faces (phases?) of the Perth O305:

VOeV:
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STUeLB:
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NFI:
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Later changed to....
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Where is 444 now?
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That #444 is one strange looking vehicle :shock: Doesn't look so strange in the newer livery
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444 was last seen at the Auctioneers... Seemed like a failed motorhome conversion. Dunno whether it is still there...
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444 was built to the Alusüisse Design. It was assembled by Howard Porter.
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And here you go ! Pics up on the trax site now. STA rt 510, and sydney explorer. I like !
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What's with the funny desto on 1951 "....via ALL STOPS" :shock:
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Looks very good!
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more like a toy than a model...damn. There is a market out there for anyone that wants to do this model properly!
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The pictures shown would be the pre production models, obviously the final production of the model hasn't arrived yet.....
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I don't think they are pre production samples. So where are front mirrors? (That reeally distracts from models), or at least something that looks like a mirror.

And the mistakes in the model are?

Is it more, or do the route numbers seem a bit small?
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