CIE Cravens Stock

[irishrail123]

The only place you can get technical drawings would be Inchicore works. The only suggestions i have is: add irish rail on facebook and ask there (they always respond), you can also just try going up to inchicore works but i doubt that will help you. Also you can try emailing "Moranb" on the UKTrainsim forums and ask how he got in touch with them and got the plans. (he made the mk4 train so he got the drawings somehow, so maybe he could help). Thats all i can suggest i am afraid.

Lukas

[moranb]

I'm afraid that I cannot help with the 121s. However, the basic details of that loco are available at http://www.eiretrains.com - there is a section on the 121s with a wide selection of photographs, including a broadside view. There is also some information in Wikpedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_121_Class).
According to Wikpedia they were 12.14 meters long. On that basis, and using the broadside view photo, the height over the cab is about 4.05 meters and the width at the cab about 2.54 meters.

Your work is very impressive. I use 3D Canvas for my models, but I had no idea it is possible to obtain such good results with Sketch-up. But how do you get Sketch-up models into RW?

BFM

[Irishrailguy]

Thanks everyone for the help, I'll see if I can get the dimensions from your suggested sources.

I can get the model from Sketchup to 3DC by referring to a tutorial I found off the Sketchup forum ( lets hope I find it again).

[Irishrailguy]

I'm trying to contact irish rail via facebook but I can't enter a recipient, the field wipes itself when I go to type the message, does anyone know what the recipient should be, sorry if this sounds stupid I'm still a noob at social networking:)

[irishrail123]

Did you go this page yes? http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/iar ... ann?ref=ts
Just leave a comment under any of their "news" try that.

[Irishrailguy]

Thanks Lukas, now I wait...

I am starting TY next week so the project will probably be on the go - slow for a while, but rest assured, I haven't given up on it yet.

[Irishrailguy]

Irish Rail replied back a few minutes ago saying they'll get back to me next monday.

[irishrail123]

fair enough. i guess it does take a few phone calls to sort one of those out!

[Irishrailguy]

Certainly, especially with Irish Rail. They really should provide a resource archive with route maps and diagrams etc. Network rail provide these in the uk, why can't Irish Rail?

[Irishrailguy]

Got the plans, I'm starting into resizing the models now,

Should have an image update in a few weeks, if all goes well.

[Irishrailguy]

Just a quick update tonight...
http://s994.photobucket.com/albums/af65 ... der121.jpg

Finally got the WIP model into blender, I'll work on the export to RW tomorrow.

[irishrail123]

Looks good! Any luck of getting the model into RW?

[Irishrailguy]

Well... I'm afraid I've hit a wall, the Bigex exporter can only export so many polys. Its been a known problem that sketchup models fail to become igs models due to the amount of polys it creates, I import to Blender fine, but when it comes to exporting the command box produces a constant stream of "new face created' notifications. This goes on for about 30 mins until I get a memory error. I don't know if Canvas deals with this any better, I'm really stuck on this one.

Sorry about this guys, I was really hoping to get this working.