Hutchison, Overtown Optare “Buggy Bus” 1:76 scale

            Hutchison Coaches of Overtown, Optare Buggy Bus, service 4 - Coltness via Wishaw. Pictured setting down to pick up passengers at A&E bus stop, Mossend District General Hospital. 

This model is a Code 3 repaint of a Corgi OOC Diecast Optare Delta in 1:76 scale (OO Gauge). My own work, the model was disassembled and stripped before being repainted, receiving interior detailing and being finished with both Sunrise and custom waterslide transfers, including the tiny pennant for SPT’s Zonecard.  Complete with “Buggy Bus” advertising, the model represents Lanarkshire bus and coach operator Hutchisons. Based from their depot at Overtown, Wishaw, the company became a well respected and instantly recognisable local, National and international operator. 

Now extinct having been sold into First Bus ownership back in 2007, Hutchisons had been a big presence in North Lanarkshire for a number of years. Sadly no models of their vehicles were ever formally commissioned which encouraged me to make my own fleet by repainting standard release models. In doing so I have built a fleet representing both passenger service and coach operations.

Taken on: January 27, 2021

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