Carson Car Shops

I definately know what you mean, its always funny because I have a tendancy for coming up with completely insane ideas for logging stuff. Usualy I decide that it is just over the top, and then find a prototype for just what I was thinking of :) I did the cab that way intentionaly, because I think th...

LOL, I did a real life version of that. Im in the middle of building one of these cabeese in G scale, and I used a passenger car truck for my wheels too!

Ok, Here is that engine. The modeling is actualy done, I just never get around to textureing it. Without the textues the cab looks a bit odd, but it is suposed to be a crude homebuilt woden one. I will probably make another with a more normal looking cab too someday. http://i41.photobucket.com/album...

I need to stop dissapearing :roll: . I was trying to make a ng30 version of Shagster's shay shay too! I did some serious changes to evrything, so about the only thing that is the same is the runing gear and the bunker. I already reguaged the trucks, so if anyone wants the files for them I can post e...

Wow! Ive been away for a while and this has come a long way. Both versions look great, and I cant wait to try them out.

This confused me for a bit too. The catch is that the lever bends the single set of rails, not the pair diverging like on a "normal" switch.

That looks good! I also like how unique it is, its not just anothe boxcar or gon.

I like the snow idea. Ive been waiting for someone to have an idea of how to make snow for a while. :D Im shure on the details of how it would work but I would suspect it would work like a signal. When it gets turned "red" by a train passing it would go down. I guess that would probably ma...

Just another update: I have the model mostly done, but have a lot to tweak to get it to look right in trainz.

Lots of detail on that would be great, since there probably wouldnt be more than one in the same place. If a lot of the stuff on the walls was just done as textures, or atleast done that way in a lod I dont think it would be too bad. Basicly aslong as it doesnt make my computer crash :roll: , detail...

Heres another update, its coming along well, but there is more to do than it looks like.

Thanks for the help, and here is that picture I promised.

I decided to try another project in gmax, so now im building a depot. I don't have time to add pictures tonight, but I will asap.

I also have a question about working with gmax. If I want to make a face visable from both sides, how would I do that?

Paul

That looks realy good. Horay for more 30" gauge!

I see what you are saying. Now that I look more closely, I think it looks somewhere around 3 times longer than the porter. Mostly I had been using the magma, so I wasnt thinking about how small it is. I get it now though.