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Hi everyone!
I´m happy that I can present my newest creation! It´s the next piece of my minifig scaled RC collection. This time I decided to build a Flixbus. After Flixbus bought the rivalry Eurolines, it became maybe the cheapest way for poor students from Hungary (or not only from Hungary) to travel across Europe. At least for me it was the perfect method at that time! Hope you like it!
Unfortunately the last time I travelled somewhere by a Flixbus was in August 2019. But hopefully it will change in the near future!
Flixbus came often in the middle of the night, just as the Knight Bus did in Harry Potter. That´s why it stands on the destination screen :)
Before you start reading about the boring technical facts and irritating things during the building period, please watch the video!
It took approx 4 months long to build the bus. It´s not the first tiny RC I build. Despite of it I can´t say it didn´t challenge me. Yes, I´m speaking about the lettering and arrows on the sides. Maybe you still remember of the Milka Truck. That lettering has only vertical or horizontal building techniques. That´s why it was possible to do the lettering on each side only 1 stud deep. It was important, because it allowed to put the battery box (the biggest and most inflexible element) between the two walls and staying with the width in 6 studs at the same time. But “FLIXBUS” is more difficult. It is also not always possible to have stud connections (for example letter X, or the diagonal arrows). In this case the letters have to have inside some bigger parts on them, which simply doesn’t allow them to fall out. It means it stays only a two-stud wide space in the middle. That’s enough for the technic chassis, but not for the batteries. And also not for the motors… So only the half of the lengths stayed for the functional parts.
For the steering and propulsion I stole the method from the Milka truck (with vertical motors), where they´ve already proven, that they work really well. The only possible (long enough) space for the battery box was at the back. Fortunately right above the driven wheels. They need the weight on them to increase the friction between the tires and the street. Another positive feature is, that the Sbrick is small enough to be above the letters, so I didn´t have to make the whole bus longer.
Another part of the challenge was to create the diagonal white lines on the front. There was almost nothing inside, which they could be attached to. The reason is, that the moving parts of the steering are there, so it´s simply impossible to put there any other parts without disablement of the steering. Other reason is, that the upside-down parts of the front have already used the space there. At the end I decided to use the rubber bands, without being irritated by the fact, that it´s possible to see them outside, too.
The bus has three axles. The third one is again an axle with some kind of fake suspension. It is just hanging there and doesn´t hold anything, so in theory it can never happen, that the driven wheels leave the ground. Please notice the detail that there are brackets instead of plates on the top of the third mudguards. It creates a bit bigger space in the mudguard for the wheels with the fake suspension. It means, that the bus can win against bigger obstructions.
All in all I really enjoyed working on the bus. Hope you like the result, too! Thanks for watching and reading!
DSC_6596 - I0612 - SJ21 NDO - Volvo 9700 - McGill's (FlixBus - Second Scottish-Anglo UKN10 Service) - Victoria, Elizabeth Street 17/07/21
Flixbus BeNeLux
Demuynk & Vansteelandt - Bellegem BE
Irizar I6S, 1-UMY-382
Bruxelles Nord / Schaerbeek
Linie Brüssel Caen
The route for this service is Manchester - Birmingham - Cambridge - Stratford (East London) - Paris. Photographed at the new Flixbus stop at Colmore Circus, Birmingham. Contrary to the report in the Birmingham Mail, this is not the first international coach service from Birmingham, there have been services to Poland for probably 15 years now (currently operated by Sinbad, a large Polish coach company). I do not know if there have been other international routes in the past.. www.flickr.com/photos/183419366@N07/50191650113/in/album-...
Leiden 28-10-2022. Verhoef, Bodegraven (NL) 13-BJR-4, VDL Futura FDD2 141/510 new in July 2017 as a Flixbus.
DSC_0769 - YK20 YTB - Yutong GT12 ZK6129HQ - Corbel Coaches (FlixBus; Ex-Your Partner in Journey) - Hyde Park Corner, Park Lane 03/07/21
Seen heading northbound on the M1 motorway at Milton Keynes on Flixbus route 023 to Manchester via Stoke.
A 2017 Scania K410EB6 with Caetano Levante 2 bodywork (C56FLt) from Whippet Coaches of Swavesey,
New to Whippet in June 2017.
It originally worked services for National Express with fleet number NX18.
FlixTrain, are a new operator due to start a Cologne to Hamburg service later in March 2018; the distinctive livery is similar to that of FlixBus, which has transformed long-distance bus travel in Germany.
DSC_9986 - YJ19 BBN - VanHool EX16M - Turners of Bristol (FlixBus) - Victoria, Buckingham Palace Road 03/07/21
Flixbus BT-WU400 operated by Omnibus Wunder e K based in Bayreuth is a 2018 Neoplan N1222/3L Skyliner on a service to Maastricht at Frankfurt(Main) bus station on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022.
Seen at sandbach services whilst operating a 023 service from London Victoria to Manchester Shudehil
DSC_9632 - TH21 NDY - VanHool EX17H - Thandi Coaches (FlixBus) - Manchester, Shudehill Interchange 24/04/21