Bit of a Lightweight

morpethcurve · Post by **morpethcurve** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:15 pm

I got bored waiting around for a new sim to come out, so I dug around in my reference library (which is about to reach L-Space criticality) and decided to to build one of these:

After about two hours.

A few minutes ago. MSTSbin Rocks!

I'll post more as I progress.

-Chris

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:23 pm

Hi Chris
One word.... WOW

........... I love these units.
Cheers
Jon

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:04 pm

Now that is something I like Chris.

I took the liberty of editing your post to get rid of the thumblink since Matt modified the way Atomic Album pictures work on the forums - they automatically create an 800 * 600 thumblink now - edit your post to see how I did that

Kindest regards

John

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:09 pm

Ooh, yes please Chris!

David

chrisj94 · Post by **chrisj94** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:25 pm

Nice one Chris

eyore · Post by **eyore** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:52 pm

Brilliant, just what I need.

Phil

Hymek · Post by **Hymek** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:19 am

any 1st gen DMU is good

, but that so far looks brilliant

DarwinS · Post by **DarwinS** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:33 am

Nice. Think the only first generation DMUs missing from the MSTS collection now must be the Swindon Cross Country and Swindon Inter City Units. Maybe one of these modern traction builders will get around to them one day...

morpethcurve · Post by **morpethcurve** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:57 am

Easilyconfused wrote:Now that is something I like Chris.

I took the liberty of editing your post to get rid of the thumblink since Matt modified the way Atomic Album pictures work on the forums - they automatically create an 800 * 600 thumblink now - edit your post to see how I did that

Kindest regards

John

Thanks for that, although all my shots are edited to 800*600 before I upload them these days (I just thought I'd not hog the bandwidth with pages of big piccies!)

Anyhoo, today's going to to be mainly concerned with my least favorite part of the model: the bogies. I can never seem to get them exatly right without a huge outlay of polygons. We'll see how things go.

-Chris.

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:05 am

morpethcurve wrote:
Easilyconfused wrote:Now that is something I like Chris.

I took the liberty of editing your post to get rid of the thumblink since Matt modified the way Atomic Album pictures work on the forums - they automatically create an 800 * 600 thumblink now - edit your post to see how I did that

Kindest regards

John
Thanks for that, although all my shots are edited to 800*600 before I upload them these days (I just thought I'd not hog the bandwidth with pages of big piccies!)

Anyhoo, today's going to to be mainly concerned with my least favorite part of the model: the bogies. I can never seem to get them exatly right without a huge outlay of polygons. We'll see how things go.

-Chris.

Hi Chris
Current European practice these days is to build them as seperate wags.. there by getting round poly counts....just a thought?
Cheers
Jon

Hymek · Post by **Hymek** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:16 am

DarwinS wrote:Nice. Think the only first generation DMUs missing from the MSTS collection now must be the Swindon Cross Country and Swindon Inter City Units. Maybe one of these modern traction builders will get around to them one day...

actually, we have alot of classes missing

we only really have class 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 107, 110, 117, 121 and 129s done properly (as in not claimed to be something like a 115 or a 108 but on the 117 body)

morpethcurve · Post by **morpethcurve** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:01 pm

Actually, I've just rattled off a version with some failry complete bogies (just missing sanders, brakes and a few sundries), and the whole unit weighs in at 1.08 Kujus. With a little luck, I can get the whole thing done in under...ooh, rough guess, 2.5 Kujus.

Here's this morning's picture:

-Chris

chrisj94 · Post by **chrisj94** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:38 pm

Fab,looking forward to a play!
Cheers Chris for this one

NiallGray · Post by **NiallGray** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:41 pm

Nice. Bit before my time, but I just love the first generation DMUs.

morpethcurve · Post by **morpethcurve** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:03 pm

Well, the afternoon has gone by quickly! I've got to go and run a few errands now, so here's the latest update. Busied myself with underframe detail and got a reasonable representation of an engine started off. Progress is going to be slow now, as I'm back to work tomorrow

Gmax shot of latest build.

-Chris