Lancashire and Yorkshire Barton Wright Class 25

daandmda · Post by **daandmda** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:35 pm

My first piece of rolling stock, what do you think so far?

Can't say for certain how long it will take. I have been working on it for roughly an hour in Google SketchUp, when finished I will export it to 3DSMax to add moving parts, then release it. I have yet to start the tender.

g0fthick · Post by **g0fthick** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:59 pm

If you have 3DS Max why not use that for modelling, it'd make your life alot easier and the final model would no doubt be better too.

daandmda · Post by **daandmda** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:11 pm

g0fthick wrote:If you have 3DS Max why not use that for modelling, it'd make your life alot easier and the final model would no doubt be better too.

I have tried it, and found it extremely hard to use, so I'll stick with this and see how it goes. I made an extremely accurate model of the RMS Titanic in SketchUp:

It was for the game Virtual Sailor, and the model still needs a few nitpicks sorting out.

Anyway, back on topic, I'm correcting certain errors in the Class 25 model so far.

prairie4566 · Post by **prairie4566** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:36 pm

Lovely to see an Ironclad

Please release it as 52044!

daandmda · Post by **daandmda** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:01 pm

prairie4566 wrote:Lovely to see an Ironclad Please release it as 52044!

Well she is 52044, but in her LYR guise so she will be number 957.

prairie4566 · Post by **prairie4566** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:03 pm

Jolly good

Looks far prettier as 957.

daandmda · Post by **daandmda** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:10 pm

With the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway being my all-time favourite old railway company (the locomotives would have passed through where I live in Castleton!) you can expect some of their coaching stock and maybe even the express classes...

skinnylinny · Post by **skinnylinny** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:12 pm

Is it possible to do that (model in SketchUp, export to 3DSMax, then export to MSTS)? Would it work with Gmax? If so, I might get a little more out of SketchUp, having built (so far only static) rolling stock models. I have tried modelling in various programs but found it very complicated, until I found SketchUp, which just feels natural.

daandmda · Post by **daandmda** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:47 pm

skinnylinny wrote:Is it possible to do that (model in SketchUp, export to 3DSMax, then export to MSTS)? Would it work with Gmax? If so, I might get a little more out of SketchUp, having built (so far only static) rolling stock models. I have tried modelling in various programs but found it very complicated, until I found SketchUp, which just feels natural.

There's a plugin so you can export from SketchUp to MSTS, you can find it from UKTrainSim

skinnylinny · Post by **skinnylinny** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:02 pm

Thanks for the advice, but as far as I'm aware, it won't handle animation, such as might be needed for a steam loco, which was more my sort of idea...

daandmda · Post by **daandmda** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:11 pm

Which is why im exporting it from SketchUp to 3DS to get it animated in 3DS Max, then to MSTS.

skinnylinny · Post by **skinnylinny** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:14 pm

That was roughly the point I was making (although it probably got lost among the brackets - I must try and reduce my use of them). My question was: Would Gmax be a suitable middle step instead of 3DS Max?

daandmda · Post by **daandmda** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:39 pm

Yeah GMAX would work fine. Just download the Train Simulator pack for it and away you go!

skinnylinny · Post by **skinnylinny** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:41 pm

Many thanks. I shall try it out as soon as possible.

daandmda · Post by **daandmda** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:37 pm

Here is the incomplete and partially unpatterned class 25: