Bluse Comet - DLC - Must Be Missing a file??

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boleyd

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The Blue Comet from Auran/N3v doesn't look very good for payware. The wheels sides and wear surfaces are all the same grey/gray color. I expected polished steel on the track contact surface. There is not a mark on it elsewhere. Also there is no texturing. Everything is flat paint except for some specular highlights. In summary, it has no character. It is just a simple solid set of painted surfaces.

Since it looks so bad I wonder if I am missing a file. I have two engine versions ,tenders and passenger cars. ???
 
No way Dick - The Blue Comets and the black versions are beautiful locomotives. There must be something wrong with yours.

Jan
 
Follows a photo. If I had to use one word I would call it bland. The parts are there but they do not look real.


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I do agree with you on what it looks like on the photo. If I knew how I would have sent you a photo of how they look on my system , perhaps someone can do it for you and you can compare ? What I can say is that the Blue Comet loco's look too clean, I am not sure if one can dl the 'dirty' versions to make it look more real.
 
well i little agree with boleyed.the blue commet isnt justified its price tag .it will be good if its for 10$ but at current and earlier price its quite expensive and not justifies its price
 
jjanmarine3 said:
What I can say is that the Blue Comet loco's look too clean, I am not sure if one can dl the 'dirty' versions to make it look more real.
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While I’ll admit that parts of the Comet shown in boleyd's post might be a little too clean and should at least show some signs of lubrication, on the whole I think it’s appearance is more prototypical than a weathered/“dirty” version would be. This was a named train and as such was the symbol of the railroad that owned it. In the days before mass media, the public’s perception of a railroad was often based on the appearance of its stations and passenger equipment. The railroads realized this and acted accordingly. I know little about the Comet and less about the CNJ, but the railroad I model (ATSF) washed the Chief, and later, the Super Chief and ElCap at the end of every run and even “touched up” the paint on the trucks if they showed any signs of wear. I imagine that other railroads, including the CNJ, cared for their named trains in a similar fashion.

I never saw a steam locomotive in revenue service and most of the photos I have were taken late in the transition era when the railroads were performing only enough maintenance to keep them running until they could be replaced by diesels. When I compare these with the builder’s photos I have, the latter seem flat, featureless and bland—and yes, totally unrealistic. Part of this may be due to the quality of the photos, but I think much of it is the lack of the dust, dirt, rust, grease, scale and general gunk that make the details stand out and give the locomotive “character”. Without those it’s just a big, black, featureless hunk of metal.. I am certainly no expert, but I suspect that railroads felt that keeping their premier passenger locomotives looking like they did when they rolled out of Eddystone or Schenectady had more visual appeal to paying passengers than a locomotive with character.
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Even if the engine was washed and waxed every day I doubt it would look like the lifeless creation I purchased. However, I am biased by a strong desire for visual reality. As a functional asset it is probably an excellent rendition and capable of fulfilling the needs of the many who drive steam engines.

Maybe someday it will be repainted to add some of the character features even a brand new unit would have had.;)
 
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