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troub (303 posts)
Feb-27-02, 11:33 PM (EST) "Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" As many of you may know, I released this caboose model last September:
Message Areas - "Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" – image 1 I shudder every time I look at that I always thought it was pretty ugly, but it was my first model. Then I released the US hi-hip hopper, in my opinion a much better model. I always wanted to redo the caboose, and here it is! I still need to tweak the texture a little, and fix the alpha channel:
Message Areas - "Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" – image 2 It is, of course, an Illinois Central Widevision Cupola caboose, with cupola view (passenger view). I am not sure if the long porch was a feature unique to IC cabooses or not. I had been planning a short porch version as well, but then I saw that MainLines had made a great deal of nice-looking progress (http://www.train-sim.com/dcforum/DCForumID5/2594.html) on that style.Questions/comments?troub
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long... DKlemm Feb-28-02 1 RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long... troub Feb-28-02 3 RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long... kenm62 Feb-28-02 2 RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long... ace6879 Mar-01-02 4 RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long... troub Mar-01-02 7 RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long... icsd20 Mar-01-02 5 RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long... ace6879 Mar-01-02 6 RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long... troub Mar-01-02 8 RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long... henry3 Mar-01-02 9 Reworked Illinois Central (Long Por... troub Mar-19-02 10

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DKlemm (1276 posts)
Feb-28-02, 12:30 PM (EST) 1. "RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" Looking real good. Looks like you added some underside details? Now if you can be convinced to do the IC side door caboose we'd have one for early steam!!! : )David Klemm
Illinois Central Route
Illinois and St Louis Divisions
Ver 0.6 uploaded
Working on Decatur IL
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troub (303 posts)
Feb-28-02, 02:04 PM (EST) 3. "RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" Thanks David. The box and cylinder thing was on the previous model, but there is some added underframe. Vastly improved trucks (although not fully 3D modelled, I think they look ok), wheels, ladders, and better texturing are the main enhancements. Also, there now are the little light-box things hanging from the corners of the roof, so if it's appropriate for the time period of the repaint, you can paint some lights on there, and (I think) edit the .wag file to make it light up appropriately. I know some of those things seemed to be lit up like Christmas trees. More accurate sizing, and a bunch of little details, in a nutshell.troub
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kenm62 (261 posts)
Feb-28-02, 01:57 PM (EST) 2. "RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" It looks real sharp! A definite improvement.Ken Martello Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ace6879 (767 posts)
Mar-01-02, 01:24 AM (EST) 4. "RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" Hi Troub, As a fan of your work, I love both, but there is a Nice change in the new version!! But......Will you be changing the trucks to rollerbearing?? I THINK all of them had either standard or Caboose leaf-spring rollerbearing trucks. Just a thought....I don't want to offend ya as I did when I mentioned a certain Stack car maker used Friction bearings on his stack cars!! BTW, nice work!! Kelley
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troub (303 posts)
Mar-01-02, 10:20 AM (EST) 7. "RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" LAST EDITED ON Mar-01-02 AT 10:25 AM (EST)LAST EDITED ON Mar-01-02 AT 10:22 AM (EST)LAST EDITED ON Mar-01-02 AT 10:21 AM (EST)Kelley, I'm sad because I don't know what you're talking about Trucks aren't one of the things I know anything about, really. Could you possibly explain some of the differences, and what is meant exactly by roller-bearing, friction bearing, and leaf-spring? Then we'll see how much of it I really do understand I modelled the body from the diagrams I found, and for the trucks I based them mostly on photos.Oh, and I never take offense at well-intentioned suggestions, especially from people who know more about some of this stuff than I do!I do know that the trucks were wrong on the original caboose(s) that I released, but that was simply becuase I didn't have a good photo of some real caboose trucks. I have changed the truck texture based on a caboose photo (you can see it in the above screenshot), and I think I've added the leaf-springs in the model (it sticks out a little through the middle of the side of the truck), but if you could explain it a little more, it might let me know if I'm really on the right track.troub
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icsd20 (287 posts)
Mar-01-02, 04:44 AM (EST) 5. "RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" Howdy,Looks great.I can't wait to get a hold of it.Thanks,
Sam
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ace6879 (767 posts)
Mar-01-02, 04:50 AM (EST) 6. "RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" Hi Again Troub, I forgot to mention, send her to me when your done and I will do the lights for ya if you like!!!
Thanks!!
Kelley
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troub (303 posts)
Mar-01-02, 10:29 AM (EST) 8. "RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" For the era on which the above skin is based, did they still have lights all over it? In most of the photos I've seen, the lights appear to have removed from the lightboxes on the corners. For some of the older orange-IC era cabooses, there seem to be plenty of lights in there though, if I remember correctly (a green and a red on each corner?).troub
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henry3 (665 posts)
Mar-01-02, 11:06 AM (EST) 9. "RE: Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" >As many of you may know, I released this caboose model
>last September: Not only do I remember it, but I used it in the first activity that I uploaded for MSTS.I enjoyed that one and I'm looking forward to the re-issue.Thanks!Henry Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
troub (303 posts)
Mar-19-02, 00:21 AM (EST) 10. "Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose complete!" It's done! The trucks still aren't exactly right, but they're a little better. It's uploaded to my site right now, and should be available at train-sim.com shortly (whenever I get around to uploading it ).Message Areas - "Reworked Illinois Central (Long Porch) Widevision Caboose nearly complete" – image 72 troub
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