I have 60-foot versions of the R-Series car kits in the works, I just haven't had time to work on them due to a. real life and b. being involved in a fairly substantial sound-related project over the last many months.
07.jpg08.jpg A major limitation for the 60-foot cars is there are very few good (i.e., high-resolution near-orthogonal taken from high distance with high zoom and directly from the side, no harsh lighting, under cloudy conditions) photos of car sides that I have the rights to use (i.e., that are mine or from someone I have an existing working relationship with, not random photos grabbed off of websites with the presumption of permission). I'll figure it out when I have time to get back to it. I have plans to expand the series to other photo-texture friendly car types that can be done in low-poly styles, such as gondolas and well cars.
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Erick, I have photos you can use for this project, you could have asked. Haha.
Ah, that depends on what you've managed to get... the major thing I was having trouble with is that Plate F 60 footers with terminating ends are rare beasts, e.g. the ATSF Bx172 class that ended up going to GTW, but I haven't been able to find too many other examples in the Plate F category. I've got the non-terminating ends covered from a TTX car in my photo collection. Plate B cars may also post a challenge...
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Ah, that depends on what you've managed to get... the major thing I was having trouble with is that Plate F 60 footers with terminating ends are rare beasts, e.g. the ATSF Bx172 class that ended up going to GTW, but I haven't been able to find too many other examples in the Plate F category. I've got the non-terminating ends covered from a TTX car in my photo collection. Plate B cars may also post a challenge...
I'll dig through and see what I have. I do know I have some plate C photos, and a ton of various plate F photos.
ever since BLW released the early Amtrak passenger sets with the Ex SCL Sun Lounge i have been slowly when time permits making up a Silver Meteor consist still have a few carriages to go, i have had to work with shapes that are near to but not exact but pleased with the results so far (been a lot of editing of uncompressed shapes in wordpad to get rid of things that were obviously wrong where possible) but here are some views, the engines are from DW renumbered and changed from SAL if i remember correctly.
Edit: correction BLW E8's
Love those cars! Hoping you have plans for release on those too. The side skirts on the sun lounge do need to be removed, the irl cars never had them. That’s something I still need to do with my amtrak version. Those engines look like ones from BLW, I don’t think DW ever made E8s.
Love those cars! Hoping you have plans for release on those too. The side skirts on the sun lounge do need to be removed, the irl cars never had them. That’s something I still need to do with my amtrak version. Those engines look like ones from BLW, I don’t think DW ever made E8s.
3D Trains has an awesome E8, but I don't know if Melanie can make those available!
Normally I try not to show off any of my work here lately, seems a bit pointless. However, This may have stalled out for the time being until I can get the proper logos and lettering found on the real birds. (Hint hint, needing St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railway (French and English versions), Quebec Gatineau Railway, and probably a half dozen so more of these goofy G&W companies, hah)
I'm surprised there isn't a regular thread for this like there is on the Auran forums
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a rather crappy repaint I did of the old 60ft plate c boxcar available in the F/L. Not enough plate c 60' boxcars in MSTS/OR it seems
Crappy? For gosh sakes man, give yourself some dang credit dagnabbit!
You said it yourself, there ain't enough Plate 60 Boxcars available.
Yeah it may not look the best but it's sure as heck a great addition.
An update to my last post I guess.. 4024 will be the tough one to finish considering I can't find the correct font for the long hood lettering, numbers, reporting marks, and that goofy looking G&W logo.
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