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[vester]

Thank you Noah.

Colors of the day:

[vester]

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,	done		greyish green
Louisville & Nashville,	done		Blue
Maine Central	done		Green
Long Island	done		Greyish blue
SOO-Line	done		Maroon
Atlantic Coast Line	done
Baltimore & Ohio,	done		blue, white band and yellow lines
Canadian National,			Green tones.
Jersey Central	done		Blue with white around the windows.
Chesapeake & Ohio	done
Chicago & North Western	done
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western	done
Denver, Rio Grande & Western	done
Erie	done
Golden Staten, Rock Island/Southern Pacific
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio	done
Great Northern,	done		Empire Builder
Illinois Central,	done		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	done
Northern Pacific	done		Yellow trims
Northern Pacific	done		White trims
Pere Marquette	done
Southern Pacific	done		Daylight
Southern Pacific	done		Lark
Union Pacific	done
Wisconsin Southern / Burlington Route			can't make up my mind which of the two

Status as of the 28th of January.
Check the status sheet on the next page.



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.)

[romualdillo]

Looks great!!! 

[Simcoug]

It's so cool to see these cars in color 

[c.p.]

They all look excellent   I like the darker glass of the last 5 versions better than the blue glass.

[vester]

Thank you for your comments.

Yes c.p. The darker glass is a keeper.


A new car, a new color scheme:

Illinois Central.

The colors of this one was a bit difficult to get right. The colors in the pictures varies a lot.

These colors can again be seen around America. The Iowa Pacific has taken up the colors on their Pullman Rail Journeys and some their other trains.

[vester]

Here is one that came in from the side line, while working on the IC:

Gulf, Mobile and Ohio.

[romualdillo]

Last two are spectacular!!! 

[vester]

Thank you Daniel.

New car, new colors:

[Simcoug]

Awesome!  Your on a roll!

[vester]

Thank you Simcoug.



Rolling on....


Two New York railroads:

Erie Railroad


Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad or just Lackawanna


EDIT: Looking at the Erie car, I probaly end up turning down the saturation of the green.

[vester]

From the east coast to the west coast and the Golf coast:

Southern Pacific, Daylight.


Southern Pacific, Lark.


You can check the status of this project in the second post on this side.
Updating the post along the way.

[romualdillo]

 

[vester]

Thank you Daniel.


On to the successor of Southern Pacific....


Well I couldn't really make up my mind today:




Sort of like the last old style one. You can recognize the colors.
I have only seen it as model train, but inspiration non the less.
Have tried to add some dirt to the template. Do you like it ?


Looking at the roof, I might have to do something to them..... add some plates or something !


Next up something from the north !?!

[Simcoug]

Yep, I like the last one as well with the solid crimson stripe on top.  I also like the added dirt/grime.
The roof is pretty smooth... If you take a look at this picture you can see some fine lines where the roof panels are joined.  Maybe that will add some character to the roof.
(large image - click for full)

[vester]

On the other hands, some roofs on the picture looks very smooth.


Here are some more pictures.
First we have sort of the real successor of Southern Pacific:

The industri behind Rio Grande bought SP, but kept the name.

Up north we go:



Northern Pacific

... and we end up back in the northeast:

New York Central.


EDIT: A little quick and dirty editing:

[romualdillo]

Like the dirty editing. I think the sharper roof hides the edges of the low poly model. 

[dwelln8hss32]

Loving the progress of details, and the variety of colors and rail companies of these cars. Excellent work! 

[vester]

Thank you both.


Got a bit sidetracked:


That is either one you love or you hate.



EDIT: Small request again: Chesapeake and Ohio lettering on the letterboard. Any one that can help with that ?

[vester]

Here is one of the planned color schemes:


and one that wasn't planned:


Sort had something like that in mind, a color scheme that I have seen in a add for a model train, but then I stumble over this pictures:

Not quite like it but... still looks good.

I might just have to do a few EMD F-units to complement these passenger cars.

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

Forgot to answer this. There is a plug-in that can turn automata into props, as long as you don't need diagonal ect.
I used one for EL/GLR trains on my tram depot and if you have a 3d program that can read the 3ds files the reader export you can rotate them to fit your needs.
(Think the problem is solved with the new reader v1.+. )

So I don't need to render them as such. Just need to do some modding, but it will have to wait at first.