Routemaster Bus Cookbook Holder

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  Step 1

  Start by planning our your design on a piece of paper, you want your bus to be a bit wider than your average cookbook when it's open.

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  Step 2

  Cut out the template and trace around it on to a thin piece of wood.

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  Step 3

  Use a Dremel inside a router table to neatly cut out the bus from the wood. Sanding off the edges. You can also cut out four wooden circles for the wheels but I found it easier to buy these at the craft store.

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  Step 4

  Cut a strip of decking to the same width as your bus.

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  Step 5

  Cut a slant in the decking so that the bus tilts back just a little to support the book.

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  Step 6

  Mix up the red milk paint.

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  Step 7

  Paint your bus with one coat of milk paint.

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  Step 8

  Paint your decking too, leave to dry and paint with another coat before painting the reverse side of the bus.

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  Step 9

  Trace around the windows of your template onto the bus with a pencil.

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  Step 10

  Mix up the black milk paint and paint the windows of the bus and both sides of the wood circles for wheels.

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  Step 11

  Using masking tape to get a nice straight edge, paint a white strip along the bus.

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  Step 12

  Add a shorter white strip to the bottom and also the handrail on the door.

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  Step 13

  Finally paint a long strip for the advert and a small rounded rectangle for the bus number with chalkboard paint in between the two sets of windows.

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  Step 14

  Use a fine white paint pen to carefully outline each window.

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  Step 15

  Paint white circles in the middle of your wheels and leave your wooden pieces to dry.

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  Step 16

  When the paint has dried, use a strong wood glue or No More Nails to glue the bus into the wedge you cut on the decking.

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  Step 17

  Rest the decking on top of something to make the bus the right height and then glue two wheels to the front and back of the bus.

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  Step 18

  Finally, use a chalk pen to give the bus a number, destination and advert!

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