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[vester]

Next car type, this in the colors of SOO lines:



Bringing over a question/request:

Is there anybody that can help me with the Louisville & Nashville nametag:

Meaning the lettering over the windows.
Either help me identify a font that get close to the one used or the lettering as a graphic.

I might end up doing Wabash instead:

[Girafe]

The color variation is nice.

Any chance to have more polys for the chariot, moreover it could be used for all the models.

[vester]

Any chance to have more polys for the chariot, moreover it could be used for all the models.

Thank you Antoine.


Chariot ? Guess you mean the open platform.

Yes, I could add extra polys, but for what ?


Same car in different colors:

[romualdillo]

I like the effect on the painting in this car. The others looked too plain and perfect.  Perhaps the windows are too blue? I don't know really, let's see the final result. 

About the font: it looks like some sort of "redondilla española", but I haven't found something similar on the internet. (free, I mean) 

[Girafe]

I mean the wheels and all the mess under the plateform.

I am quite happy with the increase of polys and details to the models and for me it s real bonus. However I think the part under the plateform is too flat (low poly)

It could be quite long to model and texture everything, but adding few details would increase the quality of the work even more.

However this mess under the plateform is always the same for the majority of train models. Maybe there is a way to reuse modeling and mapping of this part for future projects.

[vester]

I guess we are talk past each other:

Talking about two different things.

I don't plan to add more polys, but I do plan to update the textures for the wheel boogie later on.
Have found some pictures of some older ones:

[vester]

A third car on the way, this time in the colors of Louisville & Nashville:


Still need to add the textures for the stairs and adjusting the width of the platforms.

EDIT: Now with stairs.

[Simcoug]

Perfect!  Sorry, I was going to try to help with the font but I've been away from my computer the past few days.  Love the variations so far 

[c.p.]

The color variations, modelling, lettering etc all look really great   I especially like the Louisville and Nashville.

[Jack_wilds]

all I can say is... WoW!   

luv the modeling

watching the progress 

[vester]

Thank you all.

Perfect!  Sorry, I was going to try to help with the font but I've been away from my computer the past few days.  Love the variations so far 

Its not to late to help. Not satisfied with the typeface I used.


Another model, another color scheme:

CNW: Chicago & North Western, or just Northwestern.

[romualdillo]

Great again!!

Its not to late to help. Not satisfied with the typeface I used.

I've been searchig again, but without any results. The N makes me think about the "redondilla", but the rest are more compatible with an old english font. I've searched the logo, too, but... 

Edit: I've found these, I think they're better, but they're not exactly the same... 

http://www.1001freefonts.com/abbeyline.font
http://www.1001freefonts.com/dynalight.font

I hope it helps.

[vester]

Here is an overview of what is planned and what is done so far.

Color schemes planned:


   

   

   

   

   

   




   

   

   

   

   


   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Railroad	1st texture	All textures	Color/note
Burlington,	done		greyish green
Louisville & Nashville,	done		Blue
Maine Central	done		Green
Long Island	done		Greyish blue
SOO-Line	done		Maroon
Baltimore & Ohio,			blue, white band and yellow lines
Canadian National,			Green tones.
Jersey Central	done		Blue with white around the windows.
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago & North Western	done
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Denver, Rio Grande & Western
Erie
Golden Staten, Rock Island/Southern Pacific
Great Northern,			Empire Builder
Illinois Central,			brown/orange
Kansas City Southern
Milwaukee Road,	done		probably will differ from the one in Vol 11: Yellow/red top
Missouri Pacific cyan/white
New Haven	done		Black, red top aka Black Knight.
New York Central
Northern Pacific			Note sure which or how many of them
Southern Pacific			Daylight Lark
Union Pacific
Wabash
Wisconsin Southern / Burlington Route

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]

Thank you Daniel. Have download the fonts. Look promising.


Next car up in new colors:



Sorry for the double post.

[vester]

Color of today:

The Black Knight colors from New York, New Haven and Hartford or just New Haven

[Girafe]

Looks good, any nightlights planned?

[vortext]

C'mon stop teasing and show an ingame pic already!!   

great progress, excellent liveries!

[Simcoug]

The Milwaukee texturing looks great!  Would you consider rendering these as props in addition to automata?  They would look great in railroad sidings and such.

[vester]

Thank you all. Good to hear that you like my work so far.

C'mon stop teasing and show an ingame pic already!!   

Sorry, but I will keep teasing you, until I am throught doing one of each of the cars.
At the time when I gets the textures done for the color schemes, would like to test them out and take pictures of them ?


The Frisco became a Jersey Central / Central of New Jersey:

Looks good, any nightlights planned?

That is the plan.

Might have to do a few extra emd-unit mods afterwards.

[noahclem]

Looking great! I'm also a big fan of the Milwaukee one