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[Saturnr]

To go along with Steve's fabulous MK-5 and SSW 819, I have over time done a little set for my 2 fictional lines in California, of course being in California much of the equipment is ex-SP and ex-UP.

Bringing up the markers is SP Business Car 107 'Del Monte' in 1916 condition as Henry Huntington's Personal Car.

Southern Pacific Business Car 151 'Pine Bluff', a common sight behind 819 in the 1980s.

Louisville & Nashville Mod. HW 'Ohio River' the fictional Gurtantown Central's CEO's personal car.

Southern Pacific 107 'Del Monte' in post-1930s SP Business Car Pool Condition, note the lower height windows, a reminder of her personal ownership days.

Southern Pacific 127 'Alamo' in 1920s condition

Union Pacific Modern Heavyweight 'Gurtan' (fictional name), the GTCRR's public observation Car.

GTCRR Lightweight 'Gurtanville Flyer' Trainset

794 & 819 (dressed as a GS-8) lead the NRHS Special returning toward Gurtantown.

One really doesn't notice the differences in those SP cars until you start reskinning them, different types of windows, different patterns, different light packages, different bogeys/trucks.

 

[UPbigboy]

-Dave
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[Trainz_12_fan_100]

Where have you been UPbigboy?

 

[VIA6415]

I updated the website and added new screens and stuff.
http://novascotiatrainz.weebly.com/screen-shots.html

 

[GIRAUD]

Hello from France !!!

My last reskins of ex DB V 100 , in different liveries for railways french working enterprises : (3D base from Topae)









Cheers, Marc

 

[Vinnie264]

Did all of the BLE SD40-3. Will be released at some point at TEH.

 

[pdkoester]

Thank you Vinnie.

 

[tbird8923]

Just made this for my own sanity

 

[TrainzPlayer14]

Attempting to reskin Dave Snow's wide vision caboose into a CSX livery. Not exactly an amazing looking skin, although I'm fairly new to this.



Still need to color over some parts to make it gray or whatever color it needs to be (hence some red parts), and of course get the CSX logo on there.
Would like to make it appear weathered but I have no clue. :/

 

[Vinnie264]

Not exactly an amazing looking skin, although I'm fairly new to this.
:/

Looks fine to me man. With time and patience, your skins will progress greatly. You'll learn to hate your own work, even the last reskin you do. You'll be like "agh, crap, coulda done that one thing better".

For instance, this was me only 3 years ago at best lmao. I was pretty bad at it. Laughable to say the least, and I still feel that way at times.

Other than taylor817 teaching me proper saturation values and jcurran teaching me how to open engines for edit in the first place, I'm completely self taught. You just learn things and adapt your own style and ways of doing things over time, or at least that's what's happened with me.

Great reskin, dude. Keep drilling at it.

 

[TrainzPlayer14]

I guess we all do start off as beginners. I agree with you that I'll probably look back once I'm done with my project and go "Dang, I could've done that part better" but it's a start - I'm a newbie to this.
I really appreciate your encouragement, I'll definitely do my best to see this through.

 

[TrainzPlayer14]

Was busy last night, into the morning :hehe:



Now, I have tried hand baking textures, they've come out okay but I've encountered a small issue:



Not the end pf the world, but I'll have to see if there's a work-around.
Still got to figure out how to make the red parts yellow...

 

[btvfd]

TrainzPlayer14

The floro green blocks will need to be changed

 

[TrainzPlayer14]

Thanks btvfd! I had wanted to change those to gray so now I know what to do... but I was actually refering to this:

It's an issue that happened with the hand baking, due to the way the model is mapped. I'll have to figure it out at some point...
Sincere apologies for not being more clear, but thanks for pointing that out, I had almost forgotten I wanted to change those as well. :hehe:

 

[whitepass]

That looks like a mesh error, they can be very hard to see/find when making the mesh.

 

[applegathc]

Threw two Jointed Rail models into Photoshop this evening, first is a Chessie (B&O) GP40-2 that I weathered up, because nothing stays clean forever,
and partially skinned up an ex-Conrail CITX SD40-2 into East Lewiston Terminal Railroad. Honestly, I think both turned out great if I do say so myself.

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[VIA6415]

Anyone want custom models to reskin with out needing permission to upload your free to use anything put out by Dragonharh or VIA6415 ( both are my user names ), I felt like being nice today . To be honest I'm not much into trainz these days as I use to be and not too worried about my old models that are out dated by today's standers of detail in trainz.

 

[TrainzPlayer14]

Well, the skin is almost done for the most part, I've added the running number, which is "903282":



Now pretty much the only thing left to do is to add the "CSX" logo:



The "C" and "X" shouldn't be to much of a problem, although the "S" may be difficult, unless there's some nifty trick in Paint.NET I haven't learned yet :/ I'll also put a C&O logo next to the number, if I can.

Oh yeah, if anyone's interested, this is the model my skin is based off of:

P.S. applegathc, those re-skins look really nice!

 

[PerRock]

Well using the font Lubalin Graph Bold would be a good start to getting the logo, as CSX uses a modified version of it. In the end however, for best results you should use a vector graphic editor then import the results into your raster editor. Inkscape is a good free one, but vector graphics is a learning curve from raster.

peter

 

[Vinnie264]

And an addition to the fonts, for numbering, I would recommend Helvetica for the numbers, but if that can not be found, Arial would be the next best bet.