Arriva's 1111 is no stranger to my feed as I drawn the bus twice now, back in 2018 but was re-uploaded with enhanced details last year. The reason was because 1111 is one of my favourite buses and I just could not resist doing this piece, just supposing... if one day I was to preserve the bus, what would it look like? Well, this is the result!
Lately there's been a trend in some preserved buses wearing liveries they never wore in real life, I personally love this idea as I was thinking of Mainline's fictional 2717 which is an ALX400 bodied Volvo B7TL which I mistook for a heritage liveried bus still in service to this day.
Because no Leyland Lynxes from the original Yorkshire Buses company (not to be confused with the one in Leeds working mainly old ex-London double deckers), I wanted to paint up a Volvo B7RLE from Arriva's Heckmondwike depot and paint it up in the red/cream livery with black lower panels, this affect really does work and adds more colour to the front.
To publicise my page and YouTube channel which is still under construction I added an advert to the rear which blends in to the livery, I don't mind adverts on buses which blend in, I just think the old traditional adverts on most of the buses today looking not just dated but most of the time unattractive especially the ones using contravision and opaque stickers.
Also to make no.1111 more 'Lynx-like', I would have white LED destinations on the front which they carried although they were the old rollers when new.
None of Yorkshire Buses' fleet wore chrome wheel fittings but I thought on the Wright Eclipse Urban and on black wheels, they really look nice.
At the moment, this project is wishful thinking because with a lot of preservation projects its not an easy task to make physically and financially, not to mention I don't have a driving licence, all my knowledge is on games like Bus Simulator 21 and Bus Simulator City Ride, at the moment that's as close as its going to get as a result.
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