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Well, the new IRTC round is Oppisites. I've decided to do a railway-themed
entry. I started modeling today and have made I think a good amount of
progress for a single afternoon. This is also the first bit of serious
POVing in a bit over a year. I've gotten a quite solid model of US railway
track (notice the fine details, such as the spikes and joints between
sections. I've also gotten a decent start on one of the locomotives for
the scene, a circa 1941 Alco RS-1. I've put three of them in the scene to
fill it in a bit, since there is no real scene at the moment, just a
plane. Texturing for the most part is pretty basic right now, but I love
the rust-over-black paint I cooked up for the railings on the engine. Any
comments most welcome!
Here's an image of the real thing:
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/gm400.jpg
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And here's a detail from the full 1600x1200 render. This was using a
17x17, circular orient parrallel area light. Works great.
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"Tyler Eaves" <tyl### [at] mailshack com> wrote:
> Well, the new IRTC round is Oppisites. I've decided to do a railway-themed
> entry. I started modeling today and have made I think a good amount of
> progress for a single afternoon.
Looks good so far. However, the rails are usually attached to the ties by
plates. The plate goes onto the tie, the rail goes on the plate and a spike
is hammered through the plate, into the tie holding down the rail. All the
ones I have seen are very rusty compared to the rails. Check out the
following web site - http://www.akrailroad.com/track_assemble.html
In addition, all of the ties in real use are almost all a deep charcol
black in color from the creosote that covers them. This would create a
great texture component to your scene.
Chris Holtorf
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Excellent start Tyler. Fresh motivation is what the IRTC needs. Any
hint as to how you are going to tie this train into the round's topic
(unless I didn't look carefully enough at the image). Trains look like
they are huge modeling project. More so than aircraft, which I have
done a few of. Remember to divide your time equally amongst texturing
and lighting, in addition to modeling. You don't want to fall short in
one aspect of your image.
Skip
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Skip Talbot wrote:
> Excellent start Tyler. Fresh motivation is what the IRTC needs. Any
> hint as to how you are going to tie this train into the round's topic
> (unless I didn't look carefully enough at the image).
Two trains traveling in opposite direction?
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On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 06:44:50 -0400, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
> Skip Talbot wrote:
>> Excellent start Tyler. Fresh motivation is what the IRTC needs. Any
>> hint as to how you are going to tie this train into the round's topic
>> (unless I didn't look carefully enough at the image).
> Two trains traveling in opposite direction?
Not just that but there will be an historical compentent as well. The RS-1
was one of the early diesels, and the other train is either going to be a
very modern diesel, or a steam. I'm not sure whic.
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On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:51:10 -0400, Tyler Eaves <tyl### [at] mailshackcom>
wrote:
Had a little time to work on it this morning. I've started to add some
finer details to it, most notably the access hatches for the diesel
engine. Also fixed a bug where the walkways along the side and the cab
were too narrow, by about 4". Not a huge difference, but the proportions
are better now.
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On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:51:10 -0400, Tyler Eaves <tyl### [at] mailshackcom>
wrote:
Okay, this will be my last one for a while. Lots of improvements over the
last!
* - Much improved texturing on the engine (still no where no final, but
it's beginning to resemble dirty metal)
* - More modeling of engine details (radiator, exhaust, etc)
* - Tweaks of cab windows
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"Tyler Eaves" <tyl### [at] mailshackcom> wrote in message
news:op.### [at] localhostlocaldomain...
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:51:10 -0400, Tyler Eaves <tyl### [at] mailshackcom>
> wrote:
>
> Okay, this will be my last one for a while. Lots of improvements over the
> last!
Yes indeed. Your other images were too dark for me. This one shows some
detail and is lighter in appearance on my monitor.
Nice.
~Steve~
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Tyler Eaves wrote:
> Well, the new IRTC round is Oppisites. I've decided to do a
> railway-themed entry. I started modeling today and have made I think a
> good amount of progress for a single afternoon.
> ...
Waaaay too dark. Can't see a thing -- just a big black blob. :-(
(Don't think it's _my_ monitor... Most images here show up fine.)
-=- Larry -=-
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