Bogies

nickuk · Post by **nickuk** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:40 pm

I am using gmax and have no idea how to create bogies or where to start attempting to make them. Would it be possible for someone else to let me use their bogies and me to put them onto my model?

Thanks,nick

BR7MT · Post by **BR7MT** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:15 pm

Most bogies that I have seen are made from a single box with section removed using transparency. For 3D detail such as axleboxes and the air suspension cushion you simply make the correct shaped parts and then attach them to the main box.

However looking at the class 323 bogie (type BP62 for the DMSO and BT52 for the PTSO) you will need to do the main frame transoms then stick on the axle box's plus air suspension cushion and any other bits.

regards

Dan

nickuk · Post by **nickuk** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:14 pm

Yeah, thats the tricky part. If you could draw what shapes i should make it would be easy

cua193 · Post by **cua193** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:58 pm

Nick,

Have a look at my coach tutorial at the steam4me site.

Bogie is just a box with bits added.

Richard Osborne

qzdcg8 · Post by **qzdcg8** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:16 pm

nickuk wrote:Yeah, thats the tricky part. If you could draw what shapes i should make it would be easy

Load a balloon tram into Shapeviewer and have a look at the underside for any easy-peasy way to do it - you'll see that each bogie is a flat box (named BOGIE1 and BOGIE2) and each set of wheels on the bogie are made of a disk at either end joined by a long thin 4 sided box - each set of disks with an axle is named WHEELS11,12,21,22 etc.

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:13 pm

Boxes with transparencies! eeek thats like sooooo 3 years ago

This is how it should be done :: and is by Chris Longhurst

http://www.christrains.com/inbuild.html (the bogie construciton is half way down the page)

nickuk · Post by **nickuk** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:02 pm

Pics are broke

But if you look at the 323 bogies, they have like tube tyres under there.

nickuk · Post by **nickuk** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:48 am

I had a go, there too big and .

LucaZone · Post by **LucaZone** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:54 pm

Working side by side with Nick, here is the bogie on my pc. Only the second one ive ever made.

In a haste to get it textured I skipped the part where you go in and remove unnecessary polys.....

250787 · Post by **250787** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:57 pm

Looking very good!

BR7MT · Post by **BR7MT** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:43 pm

Oh! My e-mail isn't much use then

Looking great

regards

Dan