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Barbie Bus Re-vamped

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This is the bus I have been working on for.... TWO YEARS!!!!  No mine was second hand and had been 'well loved' it never looked this good First job was to remove all the inside. Some of it came out quite easy and some....not!  I decided on a 'posh' bus so chrome on the outside and a black, white and chrome inside. I always spray with and undercoat first them thine layers of the selected colour followed by a sealant. For the shell I under-coated the whole thing white the painted the inside white. That was the easy bit before I sprayed the outside I needed to mask off all the windows and holes. I did the windows first the the top. I left the door off until the end as this allowed me access to the inside. First I sprayed the unit white. With this unit it had a lid that lifted when the drawer was opened. I wanted the drawer but not the lid but removing the lid left a space so I filled this with a piece of foam core. I then added a new foam core to...