VDK Tranports Inc.

[vortext]

Great job with all the liveries so far! The darker glass & dirtier template are subtle but good improvements.

[vester]

Thank you Erik. Glad you like my work.

Old one color scheme from my first volume with passenger cars:



Looking at the roof now, I think the uv-maps needs to be readjusted.

[vester]

Copying over the status sheet:
Here is a status of what is planned and what is done so far.

Color schemes planned:


   

   

   

   

   

   




   


   

   


   

   

   

   

   


   

   

   

   

   



   

   

   

   


   

   

   

   



   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Railroad	1st texture	All textures	Color/note
Burlington Route	done	done	greyish green
Louisville & Nashville,	done	done	Blue
Maine Central	done	done	Green
Long Island	done	done	Greyish blue
SOO-Line	done	done	Maroon
Atlantic Coast Line	done	done
Baltimore & Ohio,	done	done	blue, white band and yellow lines
Burlington Northern, exclusive	done	done	Green with white band and red trims.
Canadian National,	done	done	Green tones.
Jersey Central	done	done	Blue with white around the windows.
Chesapeake & Ohio	done	done
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy / Burlington Route	done	done	Red/white
Chicago & North Western	done	done	Yellow, green letterboard
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western	done	done	White and red with yellow trims
Denver, Rio Grande & Western	done	done	White/yellow with black trims
Erie	done	done	Green/white with yellow trims
Golden Staten, Rock Island/Southern Pacific	done	done	White/orange-red
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio	done	done
Great Northern,	done	done	Empire Builder
Illinois Central,	done	done	brown/orange
Kansas City Southern	done	done
Milwaukee Road,	done	done	Orange, red letterboard
Monon / Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville	done	done	Grey/red
New Haven	done	done	Black, red top aka Black Knight.
New York Central	done	done
Nickel Plate Road	done	done	White/blue top
Northern Pacific	done	done	Yellow trims
Northern Pacific	done	done	White trims
Pere Marquette	done	done
Pennsylvania	done	done
Southern Pacific	done	done	Daylight
Southern Pacific	done	done	Lark
Texas & Pacific	done	done	blue/white
Union Pacific 1	done	done	Yellow, red trims
Union Pacific 2	done	done	Yellow, red letterboard
Western Pacific	done	done	Grey/orange

Status as of the 10th of February.



Most of the above is also seen in my train car package Volume 11.
The one with colors is either new or there are more colors schemes from the same railroad in Volume 11.

(Sorry about the links to model railroad pictures. Most real life pictures of older train cars are in black and white.)

[vester]

Canadian National:


What was planned to be Missouri Pacific, ended up as Texas & Pacific:

[Simcoug]

That's a lot of 'done'

[vester]

Simcoug: First texture done, yes.


Ended up retracing the name lettering of the Louisville & Nashville:


Daniel, I did try out the fonts you found, but the result just didn't have the right look, but thank you anyway.

[romualdillo]

I'm sorry you couldn't use the fonts, but the result is perfect!! Great work!!! The roof textures are really an improvement!!! 

[vester]

Its quite simple trick to it.
Make two folder... added the same picture of a tar roof.
Set one folder to Multiply (blending mode) and the other Soft Light

That way it make a change to dark and light colors.

Just one color today:


Started to working my way trough all the textures.... so almost all textures for two car types.

[vester]

Here is yet another color scheme:

[vester]

... now closing the package of with:


Nickel Plate Road


Pennsylvania


Western Pacific


Burlington Route / Chicago, Burlington & Quincy


Monon / Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville

Have started to work my way back throught the color schemes. So far, through 3 1/2 car (times 36 textures).

[c.p.]

Great work   I like them all.

[Simcoug]

The roofs look excellent!   

[vester]

Have now finished 7x36 textures.

Added some extra shadows to the last ones:

[noahclem]

Excellent continued work on these historic trains 

[romualdillo]

Great work!!!!     Will we be seeing in-game pics soon??

[vester]

Yes soon.


Revisted the first car type, I did:

Was going to do most of the color schemes for it anyway.

Here is the 1st version:

[romualdillo]

Much better now!!!! 

[vester]

... and here is the second one in an updated version:


Added some more dirt/noice to the sides.
Time to resize the texture and then modding.

[noahclem]

Great work!!!!     Will we be seeing in-game pics soon??

2nd the request for in-game pics!     Great work Arne 

[vester]

Thank you Noah.


All 370 textures done, resized and FSH'ed.


Time for some modding.