Photograph courtesy and copyright of
80M Bus Model Shop

My thanks to 80M Bus Model Shop for providing me with the above photograph of the forthcoming 80M Bus Model Citybus Alexander Dennis Enviro 500 (80892). Larger photographs have just been added to this page. 

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80M Bus Model Shop

Due to be released in Hong Kong tomorrow is this Drumwell Kowloon Motor Bus Volvo B9TL/Wrights Eclipse Gemini (DW10505). Further photographs, courtesy of 80M Bus Model Shop have tonight been added.

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80M Bus Model Shop

My thanks to 80M Bus Model Shop for providing me with the above photograph of the forthcoming Cars Workshop Kowloon Motor Bus Volvo Olympian, AV197 (92202). Following my request for photographs of the real bus, Jotus.com have kindly obliged and have sent me two photographs, taken last Thursday, and these have been added tonight.

Photograph courtesy and copyright of
Jotus.com

Released in Hong Kong on Saturday was this cute-bus, Kowloon Motor Bus Daimler A with Manchester style front (qb-kmb-da-002). The retail price is HKD46.00 and further details and photographs will be added shortly

I am pleased to be able to publish exclusive photographs of the Auto Motor Collection resin Dennis Jubilant, Kowloon Motor Bus's unique air-conditioned Jubilant, it's latter life, without the air-con equipment. A new page has tonight been added for the two versions of this model (amb01c-hk / amb01d-hk), which is due for release in January.

Model kindly supplied by 
Creative Master Northcord Limited

Having made the significant success of its cnbus 1013 model, Creative Master Northcord Limited has proudly released its latest example of the newly re-tooled Sunwin model, cnbus 1014. It is carrying the Shanghai City Sightseeing livery.

Demonstrating the flexibility of the cnbus 1000 castings, cnbus 1014 incorporates features drawn from both mainstream styles issued to date.

cnbus 1014 has the original style front, with individual front bumper, but has the newer style of driver rear-view mirrors rather than the one-piece “rabbit ear” style normally associated with the older front.

Internally, the City Sightseeing buses operated on route 6 by Shanghai Ba-Shi Group have the two-step entrance that was first introduced on cnbus 1012 (Shanghai Shen Xin bus).

cnbus 1014 features bus number S0D-214 (registration ?B-07830) and, although operated by Shanghai Ba-Shi Group, it carries City Sightseeing livery rather than standard fleet colours. Other routes terminating at Shanghai Stadium, such as route 10 also carry City Sightseeing livery, although operated by other operators, using buses with Sunwin chassis and with bodywork to a similar style to the cnbus 1014 model.

Route 6 terminates at Shanghai Stadium. The Shanghai Stadium is a multi-use stadium In Shanghai, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium was built in 1997 for the 8th National Games of People's Republic of China event, and has an area of 190 thousand m2. It can hold about 80,000 people, so it is also called the "80,000 people's Stadium" . It is the second-largest stadium in China after completion of the Beijing National Stadium in 2007. It had been used for football preliminaries at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. 

cnbus 1014 features excellent detailing, inside and out. This is a one-piece casting whose clean lines accentuate the windows and application of Shanghai City Sightseeing livery on which all logos and lettering are clearly legible on the paint. The model has no unnecessary metal poles to hold it together.

The cnbus 1014 model is limited to 1000 pieces for worldwide distribution. They will be distributed by John Ayrey Die-Casts Limited (UK), Porte Publishing Company (Japan), Transit Graphics (Australia), cnmycar.com (P.R. China) and Concorde Hobby Shop (HK) respectively.

Photograph courtesy and copyright of
Elvisip.com

My thanks to Elvis for allowing me to use his photograph of Kowloon Motor Bus Volvo Olympian AV197, which is the subject of Cars Workshop imminent release (92202). 

I have just received the New World First Bus Dennis Dragon (MB112) and further photographs have now been added to this page. I was surprised to find the manufacturers name on the packaging to still be Model Bus Evolution, as early reports (see News for 7th October) suggested a name change to Model Bus Revolution.

Photograph courtesy and copyright of
Alex Yeung

The 80M Bus Model Shop website has tonight been updated and the 'Coming Soon' section lists three November models, the two KMB models already mentioned below as well as a Citybus Enviro 500 with Euro 4 decals, as pictured above. My thanks to Kennis Tam for bringing this information to my attention.

Photograph courtesy and copyright of
Dennis Law

The second is Volvo B9TL with Wrights bodywork AVBW39 (MK9868) on route no. 5 to Star Ferry, as pictured above.

This superb point of reference can be found on the Worldwide Model Buses website, under the heading Model Lists.

Photograph courtesy and copyright of
Network Shuttle

Hong Kong Model Co have just released this resin model of Kowloon Motor Bus Albion Victor VT17AL (8167A). Registered HK4552, it carries fleet no. L51. It is on route 32R to Shing Mun Reservoir.

During my absence I received a copy of the above book entitled 'Singapore & Hong Kong Bus Advertising Photo Collection Volume 1' from Stanley Yung and published by BSI Hobbies. A new page has tonight been added to the 'Books' section of the site, just follow the link. My thanks to both BSI Hobbies and 80M Bus Model Shop for providing a sample of this book.

Photograph courtesy and copyright of
Peter Harrison

The above photograph is a taster for some new photographs due to be added to the Xtra section of the site tomorrow.