I started modelling London Buses in 1980 and built up a collection of vehicles loosely representing the development of the London bus. The first is Shillibeer's horse bus and the last is the Boris bus - or new routemaster. Most are made from white metal kits or conversions of white metal kits. By the time resin arrived on the scene my collection was pretty much complete. I found that there was not much need for modelling skills in assembling resin kits so I started scratch-building in plastic. I chose LT Service Vehicles as a nice complementary line to the buses.