Overhead wires

Today I created first pylons for overhead wires. I am not sure yet If I am going to pursue for zigzag formation of the lines yet because it will increase the workload in route editor considerably. I'd hope RW would natively support it in future.

A bench

Usually before I start modelling I set clear goals for that session. In that way it helps to keep the motivation up. As rolling stock projects can take up to 100 hours(about the same amount of days) its rather rewarding to get something finished in between. Easy scenery objects do that nicely. Today the goal was a bench used in railway station area. It took approximately one hour from start to finish in Railworks. 

Testing specular and bump maps

Today I managed to make some additional details to texturing and decals. Specular mapping is still bit off and needs some effort to get right. In 3dsmax one can easily preview the effects before being exported to Railworks, which is quite a time saver.

Here is also older picture of Sr1-locomotive in similar process stage but with more finished textures.

New signal posts

We have new signal posts being modelled. These will house newer signals.

More buffers!

Today I managed to spent 1½ hours on 30 kg/m and 54 kg/m buffers. There is not much glamour of buffers but they are essential part of tracks so they have some priority over other projects.

A hour well spent

Since we don't have any luxury of any 1524 mm tracks out there, it is time to create one. Today I created buffer for the 43 kg/m track which was backbone of finnish railsystem for many decades before concrete sleepers were introduced.

Welcome

Here are few status shots of current WIP projects going on. Current aim of these projects is to get one realistic passenger train to driveable condition on a prototypical route. We start the shots with a passenger carriage.

Figures 1 and 2 represent the status of Ex - second class intercity carriage produced from 1988-1992.

Figure 3 shows current state of passengerview on the carriage.

In next pictures the state of the route is demonstrated.

The pics show the current status Lappeenranta station model and route. The route will include many custom scenery objects and signals for realism. More info on that and Sr1 locomotive later.

Figure 7 shows the complete set and figure 8 shows old main aspect with distant included in Railworks.