Bus 3D model project, help request

[Dummiesman]

After driving the shortie for a few days. These long buses feel HUGE!
Anyways,we've got the whole family here now. Low and high headroom, short and long.
(yeah yeah, not the whole family, I could cut 2 more windows but I'm just one person)

[banman]

Love it!!!

[Native]

The family photo is great!

[Native]

Hey, I just saw a really cool build thread where a guy is starting with a green 7-window tall-boy just like the ones you built!
Once again. congratulations! I'll be following that build.

[Dummiesman]

So everything was going smooth, then I decided to stuff a fuller 5 speed manual into this.

Now I'm questioning things again. Is this crossmember in the right place? Partially between the bell housing of the transmission?

[Native]

No, there is no such cross-member. The transmission is hung off of the engine with no support underneath. I just looked. Do you need a picture?

[Dummiesman]

That would make sense..

What would help me the most, is if you and/or banman (since he's got the pinto) could take a side picture, and make markings where the crossmembers are.

[Native]

Maybe I need to take a second look. I thought you had one modeled that dropped down to support the transmission. I just now thought that there *could* be one that wraps up around the transmission without providing support.

[Native]

Nope, no cross member until just before the battery box.

[Dummiesman]

Have any of you got to try this in BeamNG yet? Curious to see if anyone with real experience has tested it

I've also released an update today, with many additions including a variant retrofitted to be a transit bus


Still brand new!

[Native]

What's the break-in period for that particular engine?


I have not tried it. I am not sure I want to try to convince my wife that we need to purchase anything like that right now.

[Dummiesman]

Originally Posted by Native

What's the break-in period for that particular engine?


I have not tried it. I am not sure I want to try to convince my wife that we need to purchase anything like that right now.

Ah yeah, I've been distracting myself from that 'right now'

It should be similar to yours, the one I usually choose is the CAT C7

[Native]

Originally Posted by Dummiesman

Ah yeah, I've been distracting myself from that 'right now'

It should be similar to yours, the one I usually choose is the CAT C7

I've been using this site as a distraction.


I was joking about having to break in a simulated engine.


Similar, perhaps. Mine is much older. Over 160K miles on that 3126 of ours.

[Dummiesman]

Originally Posted by Native

I was joking about having to break in a simulated engine.

But what if that were a requirement in BeamNG (it's not )

Where is the odometer on the older FS65s? Thinking I may eventually throw a blue bird body on here too, but they stopped making bodies before the newer chassis came out (new dash, grille, etc)

Speaking of Blue Birds. Man do the Blue Bird FS-65s look hacked together! They also kept using the switch panel that looks like it belongs more in an aircraft

[tylermay209]

I've played around with it in BeamNG. Loads of fun. Those Bluebird Freightliners are also fun to drive... plenty left in my district. I use them for the marching band because they're easy to run.

[Dummiesman]

Originally Posted by tylermay209

I've played around with it in BeamNG. Loads of fun. Those Bluebird Freightliners are also fun to drive... plenty left in my district. I use them for the marching band because they're easy to run.

! How does it handle in comparison to the real world? Hopefully at least somewhat represents it.

Also what??
Whenever I try to look for references on Blue Bird Freightliners, I come up with next to nothing! A few pictures of the interior, a couple YouTube videos, then a dead end. I guess they're a pretty rare breed.

[Native]

Originally Posted by Dummiesman

But what if that were a requirement in BeamNG (it's not )

Where is the odometer on the older FS65s?

It would be interesting to simulate lifecycle effects if you had the engines completely modeled.


Here is a picture of my instrument cluster, it is a standard analog digit counter.







Oh, yeah ... that BlueBird panel does looklike something from an old aircraft.

[tylermay209]

Originally Posted by Dummiesman

! How does it handle in comparison to the real world? Hopefully at least somewhat represents it.

Also what??
Whenever I try to look for references on Blue Bird Freightliners, I come up with next to nothing! A few pictures of the interior, a couple YouTube videos, then a dead end. I guess they're a pretty rare breed.

It's not nearly as shaky as the real thing. We call them Freightshakers here


I probably have lots of photos somewhere, if I start looking. There were a TON of them here in Alabama - probably 90% of the fleets in the counties around me were made of them up until the C2 came around.

[Dummiesman]

Originally Posted by tylermay209

It's not nearly as shaky as the real thing. We call them Freightshakers here


I probably have lots of photos somewhere, if I start looking. There were a TON of them here in Alabama - probably 90% of the fleets in the counties around me were made of them up until the C2 came around.

If only I could somehow simulate the sound of literally every part of the thing moving from the smallest bump

That's one of my memories from riding on one of these, and YouTube videos definitely remind me of that.

it is a little shakier than it makes itself seem to be because I dampened the dash camera a bit.

[Dummiesman]

I'm making a map of where the lights are (and what lights I need to trace), and I'm wondering what the one off to the left of the dash is, the rectangular one.

Also, do you know what the rest of these lights are?


(I think I can faintly see a battery light beside the red exclamation mark (air pressure??) light)