Inspired by a incredibly wide variety of sources, everything from the BlueBell railway, Dinky & Corgi diecast toy, the Magic Roundabout (60's & New version), Biro, Thomas The Tank engine, British Rail, Hornby & Tri-ang, and even Casey Jones! Sparky's Toon Train is a cartoon style 3D model with just over 30 parts as shown below. More info can be found in the read me and best of it it's totally 100% free! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- .: A complete model train :. ToonEngine - A proper old fashioned steam train, as it should be! The engine features a highly detailed cab with pipes, levers, dials, Smart mapping also means you can change the nameplate quickly with the supplied BMP template in the textures folder. Plus you easily add a face to the front texture map for Thomas style trains (not included as I'm unsure if this concept is copyrighted or not). ToonTender - A tender for the engine, complete with modelled coal. ToonCarriage - Travel in 1st class comfort in the toon carriage. ToonWagon - A open wagon for carrying stuff - textured as the other models in primary colours for better images. ToonMilkTruck - It's a toon train - did you expect beer! :) ToonPWagon - A semi closed wagoin for carrying more stuff. ToonGuardVan - Handy for Casey Jones scenes and for hiding from the Boss, the Guards Van.

.: Accessories :. BridgeGirder - A girder bridge. BridgeStone - A stone bridge. .: Scenery :. SceneryFence10B & SceneryFence10W Avaliable in 2 colour schemes Brown and white this fence is a 10 unit section. SceneryFence20B & SceneryFence20W Avaliable in 2 colour schemes Brown and white this fence is a 20 unit section. SceneryHill - a simple hill model like as seen in most cartoons. SceneryHillTunnel - A hill with a tunnel. SceneryTunnel - a tunnel without a hill :) Please keep your heads inside the carriage when in the tunnel. SceneryHouse - A nice toon style terraced hour, with a 100% perfect mesh topology! SceneryStation - With a nod to the colour scheme of the Tri-ang station, with seats, signs and silver Corgi style milk churns. Station signs can be easily changed to whatver you like by editing just texture map. SceneryTree - cartoon style tree, as you'd see in the Beano. SceneryXmasTree = cartoon style xmas tree, like in the Dandy. .: Track & Stuff :. Track10 & Track20 Track in lengths of 10 and 20 units. TrackCorner(s) 1-4 - bit of tracks so you can go around corners. TrackPoint(s) 1-2 - allows trains to move onto other tracks. TrackPointsLever - switches the train from one track to another. TrackLevelCrossing - for when those annoying cars want to cross the tracks. The image on the train sign is that as used at Amberley Chalk pits, just in front of the tunnel where they filmed the "Lucky Strike" mine scene for a James Bond movie. TrackBuffers - stops your train from running of the end. Note the design is like a real one where metal boxes clamped to the rails slow the train down slowly and safely. TrackSignal - to keep things nice and safe.

Attached Link: http://www.sparkyworld.co.uk/3d10own.htm

BTW - As this will be my last big freebie for a few months, I thought I'd give the community something nice to say thanks for being so supportive. So heres the link....... http://www.sparkyworld.co.uk/3d10own.htm

Words like Thank you fall way short but it is all we have Thanks for your Kindness

That's totally cool! Thank you for your generosity and sharing this with us!

Thank you very much!!

the little engine that could...cute...and thanks for sharing

Thank you and thanks for sharing :)

That's so cute! It's extremely generous of you to share this. Thank you very much!

Wow!  Thank you so much for your generosity!  {{{hugs}}}  Dani

Quote - I'm unsure if this concept [firebox face] is copyrighted or not

Britt Allcroft are very keen to defend the Thomas trademarks, some have said over-keen. I assume the firebox face is part of that, so you'd be right to avoid it. They tried telling the Nene Valley Railway that they couldn't call their blue tank engine Thomas, but since the engine had been named by the Rev. Awdry himself that had to stay. However I think they had to stop putting the face on the front - I haven't seen him wearing it for some time.

Anyway, thanks for the super freebie. Please don't feel that you're in any way obligated to provide stuff to the haphazard collection of knaves and rogues that we call the Poser community - although of course we're grateful when you do. :)

EnglishBob - thanks for that, I've seen the Chuggington trains (another kids series) before, though they didn't have the round Awdry style faces I remember from the books. So I wondered if that 'face on front' concept was in someway registered, possibly as a design mark. Not seen in on other trains either. Last time saw a special one was by chance the 'Santa Express' in Manchester. Apparently a regular scheduled service which the crew just decorate with balloons and stuff. Got on it without realising, and if everyday travel was that fun and friendly I wouldn't mind commuting :) BTW - if you're into trains, local news was saying the BlueBell railway will be connected to mainline services from mid March. Lovely place to visit but unless you drive it's tricky to get to. Now it's reachable for everyone. Re - the community and freebies. I don't mind because I use these myself so it's only right to return that generosity.

Thanks so much, Sparky.  Some nice looking freebies there.  I'm sorry to see your store has become an ex-parrot.

I'm sorry to see your store has become an ex-parrot. Only the one at sparkyworld - the poserdirect one is still trucking on. Or should be that be chuffing :)

Thank you very much!

Really awesome... what a mega-freebie... thank you! :)

Nice, thank you much :D

C U T E - thank you so much

Thank you Mr Sparky!

Splendid - thank you!

thank you very very much

big hug