I wanted to decorate the front internal bulkhead and ended up making the interior side a Bing satellite image of where the bus came from (Penn Yann in upstate New York) and the exterior by the driver the cover from the classic book by Tom Wolfe  "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" which was designed by Milton Glaser (of I "heart" NY fame).  The book is the story of Ken Kesey's (author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest) epic LSD fuelled trip across the USA in a 1939 International School Bus (called Furthur/Further).  There is also a DVD of that trip called "Magic Trip".

Further/Furhur - the bus used by Ken Kesey to cross the USA in 1964

Was thinking about making the outside psychedelic, but decided against it!

Magic Trip

Milton Glaser's design for the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test book cover

Draw around each colour with a fine black marker pen

Bought an old projector for £1 on eBay. Trace the black lines onto transparent film

Project onto the bulkhead

The design is then transferred onto the bulkhead

Trace the lines with a pencil

In closer detail

Sampler paint pots from Homebase

I used 23 different colours

Dulux water based paint

First few sections

You need several coats per area

The colours don't exactly match the original

Halfway there

Almost finished

Bulkheads in place

The sliding door panel

Bulkhead with door closed

I fitted the sliding door at the end

The bulkhead on the inside was a satellite image of where the bus came from.  It would have driven round these roads

I tried various images to see what they would look like

Examples of satellite images. I used the one on the left

You need Offline Map Maker http://www.allmapsoft.com/omm/index.html

Use Bing to get the Long/Lat of the area you want and export sheets to BMP files

You need to do the maths to divide the long/lats into 8 to give 64 contiguous panels

The resultant images are a bit of a jigsaw puzzle. Print in colour onto A3 sheets and trim white edges

One row was slightly bigger than the others (my maths error!)

Partially pasted

Completed images on the bulkhead