Building scenery

Today in addition to rolling stock modelling a freight terminal ("tavaramakasiini") was started as a scenery item for the route. This is hopefully below 5 hour project in total because there are many landmark buildings to model.

  Pic 1. A start with rough dimensions measured from aerial photos.

Pic 2. A hour spent.

Rewrapping in progress

I decided to improve repaintability of Sr1 by unwrapping some areas again. This allows other tweaks/improvements to the model as well. As golden rule you shouldn't change the model after unwrapping so hopefully this is last iteration..

More ground textures

Three more textures were added today:

Terrain texture set

Today first set of ground textures were created. Currently the set consists of 5 bare ground textures, 1 sand texture, 1 grass texture and 1 mix texture.

Track Numbers

Today track number sign T-401 was created. The sign allows route creator to set custom 4-digit number as track indicator. The implementation of dynamic numbers was done by using a milepost blueprint, so technically those are mileposts with custom numbers. Mostly these kind of signs are found in bigger yards around Finland often attached to gantries.

First set of tracks ready

Today 4 hours was spent on ironing out bugs/tweaking track assets for initial package. First version contains K30, K30 rust, K43, K43 rust, 54E1 and 60E1 tracks. It seems that my first version of the Lappeenranta yard has crashed irreversibly. The loss isn't that bad because I would have to place every track again anyway. Today I learned that to save hair and nerves one should make yard area(especially junctions) on flat ground so that tracks are aligned on same level. 
The tool selected in the screenshot allows one to specify the desired level very accurately.

Transformers

Today junction heater transformer and grounding transformer("imumuuntaja") were created:

Neutral section signs

Today hour was spent on T-120A, T-122A and T-123A signs used on marking neutral section break("erotusjakso"):

These were my first exports for TS2013 and there were no problems, which is always good news. Hopefully we can get this blog updated more frequently now on.