Model RR DVD set

[bendorsey]

Hi Rick:

Yup - that turned it up. I tried that earlier but like you said it shows the little passenger station. Didn't occur to me to look below. Its already available for Trainz as payware from Paulz Trainz USA but the VGN 2-10-10-2 isn't.

So many structure plans in there I don't know where to start, lol. Really nice that you can print out a range of pages rather then having to take screen shots and print them one at a time. Makes getting the plans and info for a building much easier.

I subscribe to Astronomy magazine too which is also published by Kalmbach and I see there is an ad it the latest issue for a DVD set of all issues similar to this. Little cheaper tho ($149.00) but I don't think it started being published until some years after MR. Doubt I'll get it tho as its not quite the same as MR (no plans). I have a telescope but as soon as I got my new (and bigger) one they put street lights down my street (bummer), lol.

Ben

 

[Ricke82]

So many structure plans in there I don't know where to start, lol.

I'd be more that happy to provide a list.

 

[bendorsey]

Ha ha - I'm sure your not alone. My pending projects folder (more like a towering pile) is big enuff as it is. One gent wants me to make the Seattle Seahawks football stadium since its right next to the tracks on his true to prototype route. I'm willing to give it a try (after all I made a gigantic dirigible hangar recently) but I don't guarentee what the results will look like.

I spent yesterday afternoon browsing thru the various issues (and drooling like a blithering idiot) at all the plans and construction articles. Tis a gold mine.

Perhaps all the plans now available will inspire more Trainzers to download Gmax, Blender, or sketchup and give content creation a try. Neither is easy at first but neither is as difficult as some folks think. Just takes a bit of perserverence, falling in love with the delete and undo buttons, and the ability to resist the urge to put your foot thru the monitor now and then, but its well worth the effort.

Ben

 

[Ricke82]

I may try SketchUp at some point. My wife threatens to go on a cruise if I ever attempt Gmax again and the dog still refuses to come into the computer room.

 

[bendorsey]

I had done a lot of CAD so figured it couldn't be that difficult. WRONG! I couldn't even make a box the first time I tried Gmax but I'm a stubborn old cuss and kept trying. Like I said - well worth the effort. I like puzzles and making things in Gmax, getting them into the game, and working is definately a puzzle (particularly when all I have to start with is a fuzzy photo or drawing and a hearty "good luck", lol).

I downloaded Blender and took a quick look at it but decided one headache inducing graphics program at a time was enough. Lotta folks like it so you might give it a look. I've never tried Sketchup.

Ben

 

[Ricke82]

Thanks for the tip. I'll give Blender a look when things die down after the holidays. I've run across several ads for Campbell kits (I used to love those things). The structures are long gone, but I still have all the plans. It would be nice to have a couple of them in Trainz, for old times sake if nothing else.

 

[bendorsey]

They are no longer in the Walthers Catalog? If not bummer.

I have a lot of Campbell Kits on my HOn3 model RR. I've also made a lot of them in Gmax and put them on the DLS (I still have all the plans). Many of them have been downloaded over 10,000 times and my Fuel Oil Dock has been downloaded over 400,000 times (my highest). Guess folks liked it, lol.

Ben