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johnf (261 posts)
Oct-13-01, 03:06 PM (EST) "Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Ok Its Time to hear from all the train designers out there. What are you working on? put up a description and a screen shot of your current project. Lets have a little show and tell. My current project is a collection of Cars and two steam engines for the PO&N including 2 versions of a 2-6-0 Mogul #42 and #43 number 42 is an 1880's wood burner all dressed up #43 is a 1900 coal conversion with new cab and domes. To go with it will be some 1883 passenger coaches (50%) complete and a period flat car, box Car, and caboose. I hope to have it all ready to go by Nov 1 2001. I plan to include a couple of activities as well.Here are some shots of the two engines about 90% complete.
So... What are you all doing? John Fowlis
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... SD80MAC Oct-13-01 1 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... mikkox Oct-13-01 2 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... controll Oct-13-01 3 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... CactusBoy Oct-13-01 4 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Derby415 Oct-13-01 6 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... patm41 Oct-14-01 8 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... 1bigjohn Oct-14-01 14 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... johnf Oct-13-01 5 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Captain Bazza Oct-13-01 7 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Main Lines Oct-14-01 9 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... camaro540 Oct-14-01 10 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Xacto Oct-14-01 12 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Cadman Oct-16-01 30 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Overkill211 Oct-14-01 11 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... jspittler Oct-14-01 13 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... rgarber Oct-14-01 15 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Main Lines Oct-15-01 25 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... rgp21 Oct-17-01 31 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Main Lines Oct-17-01 32 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... jstarkey Dec-06-01 37 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... DKlemm Oct-14-01 16 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... djsebx Oct-14-01 17 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... ctillier Oct-14-01 18 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... gordonfan Dec-05-01 33 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... dvter Oct-14-01 19 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... NoMoreTrains Oct-14-01 20 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... dvter Oct-14-01 21 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... johnf Oct-15-01 22 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... dvter Oct-15-01 23 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... dvter Oct-15-01 26 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... NoMoreTrains Oct-16-01 27 Roll Call ... Train designers sign ... Waterbool Oct-15-01 24 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... ianm42 Oct-16-01 28 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... C_2000 Oct-16-01 29 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Verne Dec-06-01 34 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... Derby415 Dec-06-01 35 RE: Roll Call ... Train designers s... comtrain Dec-06-01 36

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SD80MAC (398 posts)
Oct-13-01, 03:49 PM (EST) 1. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Hey John!Those Steamers Look Sweeeeeet!!!!Expecially the red one.I like the paint scheme...Wow!Sure is a welcome change from the green& orange. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
mikkox (117 posts)
Oct-13-01, 05:39 PM (EST) 2. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." >So... What are you all doing? My current project is a Shay D class locomotive, with custom sounds and a custom cab. I'm planning to release a beta version soon... I've just been really busy lately with other stuff.Also planning to start a new locomotive soon, something big and articulated, propably a 4-8-8-2 Southern Pacific AC-12 cab forward. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
controll (263 posts)
Oct-13-01, 06:57 PM (EST) 3. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Just finished my Flatcar w/Bulldozer load and plan to do
more cars with loads...suggestions welcomed.Controll Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
CactusBoy (359 posts)
Oct-13-01, 08:26 PM (EST) 4. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Working on the Hogwarts Express, Edward, an Armoured Train using non default locomotives (had to say that) and reskinned cars, more skins of the EN 57, A reskin of the GP9, and a few other projects. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Derby415 (69 posts)
Oct-13-01, 10:23 PM (EST) 6. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." KEWL CATIPILLAR! May i just make one suggestion <since i used to "play" with them> You might want to make the "treads" black or "dirty" and add a back to the cab. they arenot open. other than taht. I LOVE IT!!Thanks,
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patm41 (392 posts)
Oct-14-01, 00:00 AM (EST) 8. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." a drop center car with a huge power transformer would be nice..
or a Ingot molten metal car.. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
1bigjohn (14 posts)
Oct-14-01, 02:15 PM (EST) 14. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." The cat dozer looks good but you might want to remove
the "cat" trade-mark from the model cat gets real
mad when someone uses their trade-mark without their
permission. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
johnf (261 posts)
Oct-13-01, 08:48 PM (EST) 5. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Just got the coaches out of the shop for a run test. They are based on drawings of an 1883 J. Crossen First class coach built for the CPR. I like the buldozer, how about a Yacht or Mining truck Tires. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Captain Bazza (197 posts)
Oct-13-01, 11:52 PM (EST) 7. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Now concentrating on New Zealand steam types. Incidentally Pacific and Mountain class locomotives were developed for New Zealand conditions Latest project, US made Climax:

Locomotive features Captain Bazza's unique 'BazzaMotion'(c) and high 3d detailing*. Love the quality work being produced by others. Appreciative of the unselfish help given by other modellers in this forum.*More about this in a new thread.Don't let the computer WIN! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Main Lines (114 posts)
Oct-14-01, 01:48 AM (EST) 9. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Just completed a set of leaf spring trucks for my Northeastern Caboose. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
camaro540 (211 posts)
Oct-14-01, 02:35 AM (EST) 10. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." That is one fine caboose!!!! Abs-A-Tivly beautiful !!!Patrick Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Xacto (623 posts)
Oct-14-01, 03:00 AM (EST) 12. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Wow, all great looking stuff guys. Those passenger cars are wonderful, and the bulldozer load, and wow, that caboose..best rolling stock I've seen for the Sim so far. I can't get over how real that looks, just the coupler alone is amazing.Me, I'm still pluggin away on my 2-8-0, getting a cabview made, but not very quickly. I'm also working on the SP Daylight GS4 with the rest of the BSP folks. I think John and Conn will have every steam locomotive made by the time I roll the old consol out of the shop doors That's all I'm currently working on, I have a thousand things planned, but I won't go into those, lol!Cliff Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Cadman (56 posts)
Oct-16-01, 03:06 PM (EST) 30. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." As some of you may be aware I've been fighting with my first MSTS project an F45. It is progressing along but I have learned alot of what not to do on the next one. After it's completion I plan on doing a Baldwin Shark AB set. I've posted a short progress report in a seperate post on the F45's progress or lack thereof....Kevin Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Overkill211 (40 posts)
Oct-14-01, 02:35 AM (EST) 11. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Finally, another artist on the team who likes to put more work into the trucks than a plane with an alpha mask. Models like this caboose look 600% better than ones with flat bitmap trucks. Excellent work. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
jspittler (66 posts)
Oct-14-01, 01:52 PM (EST) 13. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." LAST EDITED ON Oct-14-01 AT 01:53 PM (EST)Main Lines,That caboose is unbelievably beautiful. When will you be releasing it?It obviously has a lot of polys in it. Does this seem to impact performance? Or did you use a lot of tricks to achieve what you did without adding as many polys as it might appear?Any plans to make the windows transparent? I have been playing around with that and have had pretty realistic results.Judd
Spittler Engineering
High Quality Freeware
for Microsoft Train Simulator
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rgarber (712 posts)
Oct-14-01, 02:36 PM (EST) 15. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." I think all you'all's work is fantastic! But that caboose, I had to set it to be my wallpaper for a bit. That is something.Rich Garber Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Main Lines (114 posts)
Oct-15-01, 01:14 PM (EST) 25. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Thanks very much everyone for the comments. The polygon count for the model is fairly low - 531 for the body, 284 for each truck, and 116 for each coupler for a total of 1331. The coupler is the same one I have been using on my boxcars, but I have become better at texturing it. Everything is drawn to scale from plans and the textures are a combination of several prototype and HO scale model photos. In some cases the textures are black and white photos colored to match the rest of the model.I hope to be able to post it in about a week. Since this is my first non-boxcar, I still have to learn how to do translucent windows and add a passenger view.Larry Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
rgp21 (7 posts)
Oct-17-01, 02:55 PM (EST) 31. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." So what modeler do you use to gain this kind of detail with the low polygon count? Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwesome Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Main Lines (114 posts)
Oct-17-01, 06:34 PM (EST) 32. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Although the initial shapes were drawn in Rhino3D most of the work was done in 3DCanvas Pro and could have all been done in Canvas. I think the trick is to create the model with a few simple shapes that are drawn as accurately as possible then create and carefully apply photographic textures that accurately match the underlying shapes. When the basic shapes are correct and the textures match, the eye is fooled into seeing detail that isn't really there. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
jstarkey (12 posts)
Dec-06-01, 06:03 PM (EST) 37. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Yep, the MEC cab is extraordinary! Let us know when and where to get it when you are finished. Looks just like the ones I used to see in Bangor in the '80s!js Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
DKlemm (778 posts)
Oct-14-01, 06:51 PM (EST) 16. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." I've got a picture with that engine and passenger cars in front of the Decatur train station at the turn of the last century! Can't wait to add those to my HD and do them in IC livery. Thanks again for all your stuff John.David Klemm
Illinois Central Route
Ver 0.3 uploaded
Enhancing scenary
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djsebx (13 posts)
Oct-14-01, 07:16 PM (EST) 17. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." i'm workig only on french Trains from SNCF railroad company, i never saw any french modeler for MSTS :/ only Chris Longhurst made some nice stuff (i don't speak about reskinning Acela to Thalys from another one).
Anyway, i'm finishing passenger carriages called "Grand Confort"


I need to build the interior and tinted windows ..
.and then i want to build this french 72500
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ctillier (84 posts)
Oct-14-01, 09:12 PM (EST) 18. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Hey you're not the only one doing French stuff...(yeah, it's missing some roof bits and bogie detail, the textures aren't done, and the end trailers aren't made yet, etc. This is like running a marathon.)Clem
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gordonfan (36 posts)
Dec-05-01, 04:29 PM (EST) 33. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." So cool now I can't stop looking at that TGV.
I've designed a repainted acela into a TGV Orange.
When your done e-mail me. Gordonfan@att.net
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dvter (62 posts)
Oct-14-01, 09:27 PM (EST) 19. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." I am bussy with this project, it will probably never get released.Just trying things out...
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NoMoreTrains (151 posts)
Oct-14-01, 10:11 PM (EST) 20. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." >I am bussy with this project,
>it will probably never get
>released.
Please tell me you're kidding. You can't possibly tease us with this and NOT release it!!! (not complaining, but any chance of putting proper two-axle Alco trucks on that RS-23?)
I'LL BE WATCHING FOR IT!!!Coming to you from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
dvter (62 posts)
Oct-14-01, 11:09 PM (EST) 21. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." No I am not teasing, what I meant was I will probably design
it over again till I find it perfect. About the two-axle Alco trucks, sure no problem, I'll look
into it.In the meanwhile, I am looking for pics of a cab for it...Does anyone have pics?Dennis Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
johnf (261 posts)
Oct-15-01, 02:12 AM (EST) 22. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." I have cab picks from a s4 rs2 and rs1. if you want them Email me and I'll zip some up for you. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
dvter (62 posts)
Oct-15-01, 07:53 AM (EST) 23. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Yes sure thanks You can send them to d.tergouw@wxs.nlDennis Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
dvter (62 posts)
Oct-15-01, 04:07 PM (EST) 26. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Hi NoMoreTrains,>any chance of putting proper two-axle Alco trucks on that RS-23?Hope this is more to your taste. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
NoMoreTrains (151 posts)
Oct-16-01, 01:10 AM (EST) 27. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Now you're talkin!! Can't wait to see them on the finished product!! And a side note to all you wonderful locomotive designers ... keep the Alco stuff coming! (and to all you Canadian loco designers, an RS18 would be REALLY nice ... and maybe a C424 ... and maybe a ... ) Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Waterbool (60 posts)
Oct-15-01, 10:39 AM (EST) 24. "Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." I am currently working with Dv12 version 0.2:
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ianm42 (358 posts)
Oct-16-01, 04:21 AM (EST) 28. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Just started on an LBSCR A1/A1X Terrier 0-6-0T locomotive. A facinating long lived class of locomotive, if very small. Some even ended up in South America. The most famous one, of course, has to be Stepney, (one of Thomas's friends) which can now be found on the Bluebell Railway.Spent the whole evening just making the wheels, but wanted to try 3D spokes and everything this time.ian@trainsimfiles.com Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
C_2000 (34 posts)
Oct-16-01, 12:34 PM (EST) 29. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." >Just started on an LBSCR A1/A1X
>Terrier 0-6-0T locomotive. A facinating
>long lived class of locomotive,
>if very small. Some even
>ended up in South America.
>The most famous one, of
>course, has to be Stepney,
>(one of Thomas's friends) which
>can now be found on
>the Bluebell Railway.
>
>Spent the whole evening just making
>the wheels, but wanted to
>try 3D spokes and everything
>this time.
>
>ian@trainsimfiles.com
>I just wanted to chime in and let you know that there is interest in Stepney, and any other of Thomas' friends! I look forward to seeing updates, and, eventually, the finished product. Continued good luck.~Chris Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Verne (64 posts)
Dec-06-01, 01:35 AM (EST) 34. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Don't know that I hardly qualify as a "Train Designer", but I thought I'd share what I am working on. I'm completely new at all of this. I downloaded TSM, Saturday and after making a water tower (whoopee),, I decided to head into the "deep end". After all, all that can happen is drown! I pulled out my plan book and started on the Pennsy 4-4-4-4. Really not sure what I'm doing, or how I'll get past the next step (I've felt that way each step of the way!) . . . or whether it'll ever run, but I'm having fun anyway! -Verne Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Derby415 (69 posts)
Dec-06-01, 07:57 AM (EST) 35. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Ahhh The T-1. LookingVERY VERY NICE~!
Jim Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
comtrain (1 posts)
Dec-06-01, 08:54 AM (EST) 36. "RE: Roll Call ... Train designers sign in." Gosh! their is hope for me, still.
After two solid weeks reading every tutorial, I still cannot get the first line down in 3dsMax4. (
But I think you are kidding?
good job, well done Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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