Just another update on the progress on these beasts...
Here's a "better" shot of the Quill (EF-2?)...Or at least the front have of it...You guys weren't kidding about "two Pacifics, back to back". The sideframes still need some joint work. Those driver textures are temporarily borrowed from one of my Winans 0-8-0 "camel" types. The pony and trailing trucks are still in their raw "cylinder" stage. The great little details are all Tim Muir's, lent to me from his boxcabsThe bad news is I really wanted to show some MSTS shots of Mike Adam's EL2 but I'm still having IUD errors...
so all I have is this shot from Shape viewer that really doesn't do it justice. The trucks are modified from Darrin Yoder's. You can see how the engine has been split into seperate parts. There's three sections, all diesel locomotives (see, Tim, I do listen to your advice). I still have to reapply the textures, which are all Mike's, but consolidated into one image. I don't like the pilot. I modified Mike's thinking it needed to be leaner...Instead I'm going to use the massive original Mike created and which I'm currently using on......the W-1 with new texturing...
Mike's Virginian electric also supplied the main body parts for that enormous bulk. I'm not sure how close it is, I haven't found any plans so I'm working from Mike's EL2 drawings and photographs. Those nose stripes are a "challenge" as we are wont to say in the 21st Century...Mike had built the EL-2 nose as several seperate sections which has been a godsend. Still, lining up all those stripes is a bugger!Finally a little "surprise". I'm freelancing a bit for NALW and they have me working on...
this New Haven EF/EP-3 (did I get that right?). The transition of planes on the nose had to be done in two parts. I used "paper cut-outs" for the preliminary textures. The quill drive is "installed" and the sideframes are very highly modified parts from the Lil' Joe.I'll try to keep making progress on these and keep you updated...Frank MusickMoving America into the 19th Century!
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