joshmeister
Proud Railfurz Member
Well, that might be your own opinion, but then again, I really don't care, I think it's a pretty cool paint job myself. -Shrugs-
Show off your reskins!
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jregner1955
Member
Trainman7616 and H222 let me ask you guys this, Do you remember your early or your first reskins.? would it be hard to offer guidence and be less critical. Let's make trainz better by this Idea.
trainman7616
Western Maryland Addict
I do remember my first reskin. It was a steam engine and turned out rather well. His skills are great its just the scheme thats nots. Thats all.
jregner1955
Member
Cool then lets influence him toward doing something more realistic and help him improve those skills.
joshmeister
Proud Railfurz Member
I like it myself, but then again it's for me only and a friend or two...I just wanted to show it off...
@ jregner1955
I could use some help learning how to properly weather rolling stock, I've done some boxcars that look ok, but I feel like I'm lacking in that aspect of things.
@ jregner1955
I could use some help learning how to properly weather rolling stock, I've done some boxcars that look ok, but I feel like I'm lacking in that aspect of things.
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montanawestren
meh..
Alright lets go ahead and stop the ****heading around and get back on topic Okay? And yes I can't help but like the SP&S Gold and Black scheme but those colors are off and I don't get the brony stuff so.....
I hate to show these but this thread needs to get back on topic. Don't even have a route for these SOBs but **** it here:
I hate to show these but this thread needs to get back on topic. Don't even have a route for these SOBs but **** it here:
montanawestren
meh..
Thanks Mick! It's actually the first logo (for trainz) that I've made in Adobe Illustrator, I definately am happy with the result. Click on the image for a full size image.
It pretty much just Wheat Montana and Florence and Cripple Creek logos combined lol.
As for the scheme, MRL follows me everywhere so I'm not surprised.
It pretty much just Wheat Montana and Florence and Cripple Creek logos combined lol.
As for the scheme, MRL follows me everywhere so I'm not surprised.
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bentrain14
does not make bogies
The loco's you made that skin on are payware. Make sure your not sharing the model and from what I've heard last time this came up is also not to share the skin. You'd need explicit permission from the original author of the model to share anything on it. Just some words of warning.
I might be able to give ya some advice there...
My personal favourite way to weather is pretty simple. I'm using GIMP, but it can be easily applied to most other programs I believe.
On a separate layer from the loco, choose the Airbrush Tool. As well, choose a colour (or multiple) to best represent the weathering you want - for instance, coal-weathering warrants black, dirt/mud is some browns, etc. I set the Opacity of the airbrush tool down to ~10 or ~20, or between. Then you just spray it around the locomotive wherever you best want it.
Few other pointers:
-For better results, use different Brush types - I use the Chalk 01 & 02 brushes in Gimp usually
-Use multiple colours where applicable (typically dirt/mud and related)
-Use different opacities and brush over where you've already been to get a heavier weathered look to it. It deepens the colour often and works for some of those areas that get more dirt than the rest.
-Back on your main loco/rollingstock layer (or layers of texts and designs), chip away at some designs a bit with the background colour and sort of break up/cover up some specific things. Example below.
-Use rust/weathering decals! I strongly recommend these, as they can totally change the look of a locomotive. I made a rustbucket using a bunch of these from Textures.com. Rust | Stains
Using the decals is simple - bring it onto it's own layer (drag'n'dropping it will typically just do that for you), set the Layer to 'Multiply' - this will allow you to still keep the detailing on the loco/rollingstock - and simply align it where you want it.
Like I mentioned before, I heavily rusted up a locomotive using the decals and some of the standard weathering:
You'll notice the 'Silver Lines Railroad' text and the black stripes were beat up by chipping away at them with the grey used for the rest of the loco (gotta love the Clone & Heal tools haha).
This can all be applied to rollingstock and scenery objects, too. For instance,
The Milwaukee Road (MILZ) trailer closest to the camera got a pretty light weathering just using the airbrush tool with some Chalk brushes.
This is all just the way I've learned to do it, and there are probably better ways to do most of it, haha. But I've been using this for something like over a year now and it has yet to fail me. If ya have any questions, feel free to ask. Weathering can be a nice and simple thing when you get it down.
Cheers,
SM
PendennisCastle
Steam Fan
What program is that?
PendennisCastle
Steam Fan
Cooming soon
B&O P-3's
Awesome, i was trying to reskin the S&A 750 into a B&O P3 but it always went wrong, the texture i paint is always on the wrong way.
Zeldaboy14
Owner of ZPW.
Pen, the program Vinne was using to show off the model was PEV'S PM and IM mesh viewer
MeowRailroad
CKRail
I think 6 coaches is just at the point where 1 Baldwin would look fine, but 2 would also work. I think that a single F7 would look best there.
Also, you have a PM.
Also, you have a PM.
joshmeister
Proud Railfurz Member
I will be asking the Jointed Rail staff about that in the future. The only way I would ask is if I could share the skins only and not the actual model itself, but thanks for the advice
