Looks good, Norm
At some point in time, I'll replace those cars also, but I've kinda run out of time. I'm going to need to start in on the next project soon ('The Building of the V&T') ......
Yeah, i suspect they were happy when they invented the cupola :) Some CP coaches: A simple arched-roof coach: http://carsoncarshops.com/images/web/cp_coach%201.jpg With a stove in the center of the car: http://carsoncarshops.com/images/web/cp_coach%202.jpg A fancier arched-roof car (probably built i...
The CP didn't get any 'regular' cabooses until 1870, after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and instead relied on these boxcar conversions.
Andrew reminded me that the early CP cars were a bit redder than the later cars; switching to more of a brown around 1868. So, I repainted the boxes, added an even earlier box with block lettering, and added a set of later boxes in the brown. Here's the early box; all cars are now on the DLS. cp_red...
I'm using Blender for modeling, Substance Painter and Paint Shop Pro for textures, and Notepad++ for scripting The only downside with Blender is that in Cycles, the texture parameters don't get exported. You need to export with a Blender renderer material - and the Blender renderer is no longer pres...