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If I may offer a little advice geordieboy775, I'd steer away from laying everything down in straight lines and at ninety degrees, life ain't like that. It's also very rare to get completely flat land everywhere, even in Lincolnshire.

Thanks for that. I realise that now looking at the other screenshots, but I think when I started the route (I sort of started it, then went off using MSTS and KRS a lot and then came back again) I thought I'd get the track done and then do the terrain after. Now I realise that was a mistake :D.
I might work on another route and see what results I can get.

Glenn
 
First one from me for a while:

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A late afternoon Crosscountry service arrives at a cloudy Bodmin Parkway, bound for Penzance.

Mark
 
I might work on another route and see what results I can get. Glenn

If I were you, I would get a map of a route out and follow it fairly closely. Or, lay a length of track along several boards and add spline points and pull it into some nice gentle curves. Lift the land off the zero level to say 5m Adjust the radius of the tool to maximum and add some height to the land raising it above and keeping some below the track and then reduce the radius of the tool and cut some grooves in the land to feature weathering. Then use the smoothing tool to pull the ground to the track. You will then end up with cuttings and embankments. Run house splines or blocks of terrace housing on level ground. Make some level ground if you wish and put single houses on sloping ground.

Pick yourself some nice trees out of this thread I did - http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?p=4541#post4541 - and make sure you randomly rotate them. Get some road bridges across the line, railway crossings and underbridges.

Adding stations on curves makes them more interesting. Lay a length of 14/16 carriages to lay the platform against, for clearance. When you build your station make sure there is a good road network to get to it.

Add some fields and apply the field textures, but put irregular shaped fields in. Factories were mainly built near rivers and the railways usually followed them, so get them in together and put the houses overlooking them.
 
Edit: Been playing with my NVidia Geforce 8600 GTS's settings, and realised that I didn't have the anti-aliasing on it's highest setting. So, here's a nice new screenie which hopefully looks much better quality than my previous screenies:

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Rail blue?

@tmz I checked your 24's and 25's next to the 31 I've been working on and they look similar enough to be useable together. Varying degrees of dust and sun fading can cause a large selection of colourings and tones to exist on locos that originally were painted with nearly the same mix of paint each time :). My main gripe with content recently is with the levels of specular being added to some custom and built in content.

Yeah, I'd been using 25229 as the benchmark for everything I do, especially as Peter Hicks's Mk2s seem to agree! Like you, I've intentionally changed the colours slightly so that corporate blue does not become corporate bland. I also notice, in the screenshots recently posted by ex-railwayman with my reskin of 55015 on the Mk2s, that these match nicely too. The 40s are a similar hue so we now have a lot of stock that matches nicely.

It would be good to adopt the Mk2s as a rough standard, stick your BR blue locos against Peter's Mk2s, if they look similar, then they are OK!
 
Very nice - From where? The route however, is the most ...err different I've seen :o

Hay escafeld the Black 5 has a thread in freeware so you should look there.
As for the layout I haven't got very fare yet into it. It is Nuneaton Before Electrification. If you look back through the thread there are some screen shots of my first attempt at My Local railways. Which got a little out of hand. I also have alot more information. So I can make it more accurate.
 
Thanks for the advice. I don't think I could work from a map as it sounds to organised for me but the rest sounds more interesting. I usually like to start from a town centre and work outwards from there as well.

Adding stations on curves makes them more interesting. Lay a length of 14/16 carriages to lay the platform against, for clearance. When you build your station make sure there is a good road network to get to it.

With regards to this is is possible to lay your own platforms that are passenger enabled?

Glenn
 
@BenThose 20's look very crisp indeed. Would love an updated blue 20 if anyone is up for that?

With the Central Services ones now complete, I'll be doing an updated BR blue one, along with HNRC's BR grey 20's (20901, 20905 and 20096) :)
 
Ben what about 20031? not mainline cert but she is in those colours at the KWVR ;)

Unfortunately that one has disc headcodes, we don't have a disc headcode fitted 20. I'm advised that the mesh was corrupted so a new one would have to be built from scratch. The only mesh copy that may still exist might be in the possession of Sulzerkid who created the DRS 20s, I've tried to contact him about it a couple of times but have had no answer.

Best to just reskin it and leave the auto numbering in place, then choose whichever loco you like above 20128.
 
Ben what about 20031? not mainline cert but she is in those colours at the KWVR ;)

Suppose I could do that one too, easy enough to alter the numbers and make a variation on the "weathering". However, it'll have headcode panels, which 20031/096 don't have, so it'll be a tad unrealistic I'm afraid.....Unlesss someone is willing to alter pacificseven's 20 in order to remove the headcode panels? (as someone did in order to do the DRS 20/3's, but unfortunately they never made a copy before attaching the WIPAC's to that particular mesh!)

Edit: Tmz beat me to it!
 
@Kimmy, looks great in those colours.

So we're all agreed then, two Blue BR 20's, one weathered and one fairly new, and a 20031 if they have it in stock. Anyone want any garlic bread or onion rings?
 
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