Ma & Pa 4-6-0 re-lettering problem

[barronzm]

I am making a Ma & Pa Railroad layout on trainz classics and I am trying to re-letter Ben Neal's 4-6-0H locomotive as Ma&Pa #28. The problem is is that I keep getting white blanks on the tender instead of the lettering. Could someone please tell me step by step how to re-letter one of Ben Neal's locos to solve this problem? I need help with this.

Thank you,
Barronzm (Mike)

 

[JCitron]

I am making a Ma & Pa Railroad layout on trainz classics and I am trying to re-letter Ben Neal's 4-6-0H locomotive as Ma&Pa #28. The problem is is that I keep getting white blanks on the tender instead of the lettering. Could someone please tell me step by step how to re-letter one of Ben Neal's locos to solve this problem? I need help with this.

Thank you,
Barronzm (Mike)

What are you using as a paint/photo editing program? In the past I've used PhotoShop, Gimp, and Canvas 11 to reskin rolling stock and locos.

Using these programs allows you to create an alpha channel and also float the text into place on the base model paint surface.

http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id8977075560.html

Here's one I did on an older model by TBob of the Housatonic former Conrail GP9. On my route, the Housatonic sold two old GP9s to my Enfield and Eastern. The E&E uses them on their subsidiary the South Bristol Industrial.

For the SB&IRy, I used Tiffany Bold and floated the text decals, iincluding the engine numbers over the base Conrail paint scheme. These were created in Canvas 11, which is a relatively inexpensive graphics program. My brother happens to work in the industry, and I happened to have done this type of work as a desktop publisher in the past with him, so I had the program installed on my PC (Since then I've had a crash and lost just about everything but my Trainz stuff).

Once the decal was placed in the right place, I saved the final art as an umcompressed TGA file, which allowed TRS2010 to load in correctly.

John

 

[barronzm]

I used Microsoft paint as an editing program. I first took the model's number and text .tga files converted them to a jpeg, changed them, then converted the files back to a .tga files. I then put them back with their respective folders/models. I can't really use paint shed because the program wishes to be consistently difficult even after re-lading. I really do appreciate any help which can be given.

-Barronzm (Mike)

 

[tariacuri]

Hey

I weathered and lettered this Ben Neal loco using GIMP, which is free, just do a Google search. It will allow you to edit the actual .tga file. It also has a heal tool like Photoshop to remove the old lettering info. Pretty simple job once you get the hang of it.

Photoshop has more functionality but is harder to use - I use it for sophisticated reskins such as these from a boxcar by Pencil

 

[barronzm]

Thank you very much, hopefully it will help.

-Barronzm (Mike)

 

[barronzm]

Could someone help me with this program, I am a little lost.

-Barronzm (Mike)