After 3 hours of research, I've confirmed that these paintjobs existed on the TATAs back then in the 90s, that is for sure. These paintjobs won't be seen now as newer ones have been put to use on all the currently running city buses, leaving each major city with 4-5 different paintjobs as of now. The pics that I'll be using for the paintjobs (with description)
The DTC (New Delhi)
GSRTC (Gandhinagar) -
This wasn't the only one used for the TATAs back then, but it seemed compatible to the paintjob's making.
TSRTC, Formerly APSRTC (Hyderabad Metro).
The old one -
The New one -
A Considerble number of 1510/1512s with expired FCs ran streets of Hyderabad even after the beginning of the 21st century. Chandrababu replaced them with the leylands in anticipation of IT development. I'll stick to the old one for Hyderabad, but the new one is just a suggestion (I could even do both).
BMTC (Bangalore).
The New one -
Current BMTC paintjob for most central routes. What if I told you there were 1515s in Bengaluru running city routes with only one door for entrance/exits, until a couple of years ago. Most of them decommissioned for FCs and safety reasons, not all of them - meaning, there are still a handful of running in the city. I've seen them
.
The Old one -
Now I'm confused
. I might end up doing both but still... I'm confused.
KSRTC (Karnataka) -
Why a state transport one ? This one is the only state bus that travels intercity routes, picking and dropping City commuters before/after journey throughout the state. This, I haven't an idea if it existed on any TATAs - just a suggestion since its an easy do
KSRTC (Thiruvananthapuram/Kerala state Transport) -
Beats me, with this being the only one that had same paintjobs for both city and state transport back then. Well, that's what I'd read somewhere
MTC (Madras) -
For the love of Chennai, I miss these badly. I couldn't find any pics of it on a TATA, but trust me - these are exactly how they looked, I remember
TNSTC (State Express, Tamil Nadu) -
I'm not doing this. Reasons 1)I see it everyday, 2)Tired of seeing it everyday, 3)No TATAs doing State journeys in TN, only in the cities. Hence, makes no sense doing this. Your call, e-cobra.
NMMT (Mumbai) -
Needless to describe
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Does it make sense adding all these paintjobs on a single door 1515 (besides the bangalore one) ? If you'd want only interstate/intrastate/National/District paintjobs instead, let me know.
I'll be startin on the city paintjobs rightaway. And BTW, these are called ASIADs it seems...
EDIT : I don't know where to find the corp. logos
The homepages and wikipedia have only the current logos and not the 90s logos !!
The Delhi one is completed 99% somehow, but there is however, a problem.
Do you see the horizontal livery on the side ? On the texture they're straight but when on the bus, there's distortion along the central portion, between both the wheels.
On the front too.
What could it be ? Bad UV mapping ? Or protruding side panels ? You could try remapping them using the delhi paintjob as default. I'm just bad at UV mapping, hence the lazy request