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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!
McGill's/Xplore Dundee Mercedes Tourismo 0640 BV71 HYL departing Buchanan Bus Station in Glasgow on day 1 of the new Flixbus 091 Aberdeen-Glasgow service. McGill's operate four other Flixbus routes (010,N010,030,N030) which all operate across the border to London, but this new 091 service is the first inter-Scotland route. To mark the new route 0640 has had a Saltire wrap applied to the rear.
SJ21NDO is a Volvo B11R 9700 delivered new to McGill's as their fleet number 0612 in July 2021 for use on the Glasgow to London Flixbus service.
Flixbus is a German brand that offers intercity bus service in Europe and the United States. It is owned by FlixMobility GmbH, which also operates FlixTrain and FlixCar.
FlixBus does not own any buses and does not employ drivers; its services run in co-operation with regional bus companies. Local partners are responsible for the day-to-day running of routes, while Flixbus is responsible for permits, network planning, marketing, pricing, quality management and customer service and retains 25–30% of the ticket price, remitting the remainder to its operating partners. This business model is highly scalable and has enabled the company to grow quickly. As of 2018, the company has a 90% market share of bus travel in Germany.
Yutong GT12.
14:10 021 Liverpool - London Victoria via Birmingham
only just brand new delivered in Jul 2023
Strand Street, Liverpool
DSC_1897 - DZ-580-YJ - VDL Futura 2 FHD2 - Cab Prestige? (Flixbus) - Victoria, Buckingham Palace Road 08/01/18
Coachbuild/Carroceria: MAN Lion's Coach III C
Engine/Motorizacion: MAN D2676 LOH
Length/Longitud: 13 metres
Plate/Matricula: AR-99-ZA
Arriving at the Memorial Gardens York with the UK009 07.00 FSSuO Flixbus service from London Victoria.
Seen heading northbound on the M1 motorway at Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire on Flixbus service 002 to Bradford.
BV67JZH is a 2018 Scania K410EB6 with Caetano Levante 2 bodywork (C56FLt) from Whippet Coaches of Swavesey,
New to Whippet in January 2018.
It originally worked services for National Express with fleet number NX24.
DSC_9506 - FX17 - BV17 GSU - Scania K410EB6/Caetano Levante (Facelift) - Whippet Coaches (FlixBus) - South Hampstead Finchley Road 02/07/21
Here's our FlixBus tour bus! Photos of the outside and inside... what a great home base for us. The bottom floor has a bar, a lounge, and the kitchen. Halfway up the stairs is a bathroom (no number 2's allowed Rene Smith!). Then the top floor has two lounges, the bedrooms, and a home theater where we are watching a lot of geeky and funny movies!
Next up on the tour is Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Moscow, then ending in Frankfurt to spend the day with Hans Zimmer and the giant 40,000 seat concert. I'm so excited! See our full tour schedule at 80stays.treyratcliff.com/
DSC_9882 - FX23 - BL17 XBB - Scania K410EB6/Caetano Levante (Facelift) - Whippet Coaches (FlixBus) - Victoria, Buckingham Palace Road 03/07/21
Flixbus-Socitransa pero con calca de Monbus 2998, en la E.A. de A Coruña, realizando un clasico de Monbus A Coruña-Santiago (anteriormente un clasico de castromil)
New Lion's Coach de tres ejes de la carrocera Man de la empresa MonBús, realizando la línea regular nocturna de FlixBús "N1.131 París - Murcia", a su paso por Valencia.
Flixbus 2270, , an MCI J4500 operated by Voight Motorcoach Travel of Minnesota, at the MCI service centre in Des Plaines, Illinois on Sunday, October 16th, 2022 during the Motor Bus Society visit.
Ljubljana like Budapest and Bratislava has a tunnel under the hill on which the city's castle stands. Bratislava's is the best as it is a tram tunnel. The tunnel in Ljubljana is used by the express coach services heading from/to destinations east of the city. This vehicle was arriving in the city westbound with a destination of Turin, Italy.
Photographed at Krakow (Poland) whilst operating Route 3231 from Wroclaw (Poland) to Lviv (Ukraine). I like the blue and yellow X in Flixbus.
DSC_5506 - OX21 STX - VDL FHD2-129.360 Futura 2 - Stanley Coaches (FlixBus; First Working of Stanley Coaches 073 Service) - Newcastle, Durant Road 25/05/23
DSC_0138 - BV69 LPF - Mercedes-Benz Tourismo s3 - Ridleys Coaches (Operating FlixBus) - Victoria, Buckingham Palace Road 03/07/21