Kiwi_gg: What kind of locos?  A Tutorial? Jeez! I can't even remember how I did it, let alone write a tut on the subject. I'll try to do something along those lines ....er......soonish  ;-)

DestinysGarden: Welcome to the Asylum!  And I thank you for the kind compliments. The Loco and Tender should be finished sometime in the next 12 months. Please don't hold your breath for that long, you'll turn blue!. ;-) 

Rest assured I have just about got over my issues with the car crash, but thank you for your thoughts for my family.

Diesel electrics, the last of the steam went the year before I joined as a trainee. Spent most of my time in the Central Nth Island, would'nt mind a dollar for every trip I've done up the Raurimu Spiral.  I hope that a Metaball wheel tut is going to be a little sooner than  a Daz 3d soon, theirs are very much later than sooner.

Cheers
GG

Amazing work Bryster

..C&Cs welcome as always.

Looking pretty hot! but the wheel cuts through part of the body.. u might want to fix that :-)
Also, shouldnt the arch of the flying scotchman logo over one of the wheels have a little higher radius? so that the curve's center (if u would extend the curve to form a full circle) would be located at the center of the wheel? just some nitpicky thoughts hehe keep goin! this locomotive is going to be so sweet!

wow!

Really impressive B !

I suddenly wanted to see what the bigger picture would look like and I need some reference points for the stuff that goes between the cab and the cylinder block. Besides, my head hurts.

looking cool, how'd you pick the numbers?

Where's the poser babe with the sword gonna be put? I vote out on the front... 

just kidding ;-)

It's coming along nicely. Any guess when it'll be completed?

*looking cool, how'd you pick the numbers?

*???? The Flying Scotsman IS loco number 4472 - just as the number of the beast is 666 (or some would have us believe.)

D@M: NVOALWAS ????

Thanks for looking!

ah, i see you have succeeded at fixing the numbers!

This is MOST impressive!

C&Cs welcome as always. Thanks for looking!

wicked! like the old iron :-)

Impressive work on those gauges.

niice :-) what do these control?

Good grief!

You made that figure in the suit just from booleans????

(..errmm.. that's not meant to be taken seriously)

I love your project and your dedication to it. I'd have given up as soon as the details couldn't have been seen from the cam I was rendering from..

Cheers,
Diolma

Excellent progress Chris!

beautiful work

How long does it take to load at this point?

Cybertosh: How long does it take what to load?

The driver's cab = a few seconds
The Loco = a few more seconds.
This red valve = a few seconds.
However, when I'm working on the loco file it can take an age to move the thing around, one of the reasons that I work on parts like the red valve seperatly and import to the loco when finished.

Thanks for stopping by. ;-)

I'm still working on the Driver's/Engineer's cab atm. Should be able to upload a view by friday.

cool! lookin forward to it B-)

funky, looks very shiny though, shouldnt it be more greasy and dirty if its in the cabin?

Ray: It's not in  the cab. It's brand spanking new of the shelf. :-)

Great stuff!...but don't forget that little bronze plate on the side.

JohnnyF: so now everyone's an expert already!!   What little bronze plate?

JohnnyF: No, you're quite right! My apologies.

Actually that's just a number that's been painted on the side, it doesn't appear to be a bronze plate. 

I've had to take a bit of 'artistic license' with this part because some of it was too awkward to model. (sigh)

Also, it is a bit shiny. I've been trying to get a black paint finish that looked worn and yet not too black. Some black mats just suck the light right up and leave you with nothing. I will be changing it though. I wanted to see it in situ before making the final decision.

For those of you who might be interested, there is a new publication out today in the UK that gives you the parts to build a real-world scale model of this loco and all the instructions etc. The 1st part is 50p but thereafter it's like £5.99. Too expensive for my tastes but some of you might like it.

all this looks great. i've been following this thread for quite some time now and i think you are doing a fantastic job. (i was thinking of making something like this in sketchup, but i gave up before starting when i saw your results)

nice! that texture is better :)

Nice one....and I agree, prefer this texture!

Looking great Chris, er, TheBryster. I like all the fiddley bits! Happy New Year.

The flanges on this piece were made by creating a heavily rounded cube from Spacebone's collection of enhanced prims and booleaning two opposing faces flat. This gives nice flange faces that have heavily rounded corners. Now by turning the flange about 25 degrees or so and then reducing a side by using the grabs, the whole thing 'skews' or 'shears' to give the kind of diamond shape you can see here. Simple! Try it for yourselves!

BTW this is a 'steam fountain', used to direct steam from the top of the boiler to other parts of the loco, but not the main driving pistons.

Nice one Bryster! "Shear genius"!