Recent content by masontaylor

I'm heavier than I used to be (though not particularly overly upholstered :ROFLMAO:). And, while I certainly prefer Mk3 seating (I was on two ScotRail HSTs over the weekend, Carnoustie - Perth, Perth - Inverness, before a jaunt up the Far North line to Thurso*), I've done plenty of long...

At one point in the late nineties/early noughties you could upgrade to first for £15 at weekends: I had a few very luxurious trips between Scotland England that way.... HSTs have been replaced by bi-mode sets (i.e. electric trains capable of running under diesel power where there's no overhead...

It's many years since I travelled in an IE Mk3.... The original UK second class seating layout was later reconfigured with many more aircraft style seat pairs at the expense of the four around a table pattern, which I understand from an economic point of view, though it affected comfort for...

ScotRail have announced a programme to replace the Inter7City HSTs presently serving the routes between Glasgow/Edinburgh and Aberdeen/Inverness with 22 refurbished cascaded-down Class 222 s from the EMR over the next two years, citing the issues of maintaining the 50 year old stock as the main...

Once again, it's that palpable sense of atmosphere: the effect is so much more than the sum of its parts. Brilliant!

And the orphaned lum resited!:p;)

Very sad: he was an extremely talented creator of fastidiously detailed assets. My heart goes out to all he was dear to.... R.I.P.

Whereas I must have clocked up well over a couple of thousand WR trips between Reading and Paddington, Mike, right from the early days, before they were even officially rostered but would run occasional services ahead of the new timetable, up until late 2005, when I moved to Scotland...

That didn’t take long to find a lovely new home, Ken!

Point of order here, John: it’s not the creation that’s the issue, but the importation into game - and the satisfaction is all the greater when an asset is finally smuggled past CM’s highly overzealous border guards! I may have bleated about the difficulties of taking on Blender in the past...

It's always a treat to see any of my assets in your screenshots, Ken: makes all the effort and aggro worthwhile! Thanks for giving me more motivation - I've spent the entire day trying to coax a new Blender mesh (which two separate add-ons confirm as perfectly clean) into the game, but no...

Same here, Annie & John. :( Crossed post

Though it does look rather dark there, Ken, while the goods shed seems OK. Time for a second version, maybe - one of the monochrome pics I have of the prototype suggests it may have been painted grey.... Cheers, m

My condolences, too. His services to Trainz were immense, and his name seemed to be at the very core of things when I first started here, although it was a while before I understood its derivation. Working with him on a couple of projects was most enjoyable - even when he inveigled me into...