Kingston Flyer - Day Six - Part Two by Rich_Potter
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I have been redoing a model of a kingston flyer I did a number of months ago in order to see how my modelling prowess has progressed and how much easier lightwave will make things. So far I am very happy with the progress.
After day six, I have added the two boilers (I assume!) to the top of the train, redone the wheels, made a few very minor tweaks to the drivetrain, added more details to various parts, extended the hoses, added more pipes.
The track was added to work on the wheels with some level of measure so that they were all uniform sizes.
I am still not happy with the wheels, they now look like alloys from an Audi rather than train wheels so they will probably get redone again tommorrow.
I cant help but feel that the drivetrain is somehow still wrong but I cant see where, or find what is wrong with it.
I have been working from this shot - http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4KTLdAAhlbA/STx8SaQKoAI/AAAAAAAAA0A/ZNxEAIgZGZ8/IMG_1501.JPG
Please see Part one for further out shot of the train, suggestions on where it is wrong from train buffs are more than welcome (my engineering skills are not as polished as I would like)
Around 230K polys currently.
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All is being modelled in Lightwave 9.6
Comments and suggestions very welcome.
Comments (6)
pjz99
I don't think you're far off, except that there's a part that probably should be a brace (not completely certain but it seems that way) and you seem to have it designed as a moving part: http://cid-b233dcaeefa9709c.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Pictures/Loco1.jpg Your problem with the wheels is just that the corner edges of the spokes need to be beveled or otherwise rounded off, you're getting there. The whole drive train looks pretty good to me - not much of an engineer either but it looks great.
Rich_Potter
Yes I think your right! Ill work on that tommorrow, ill also bevel the wheels more, might need to get rid of some of the spokes as well perhaps. Thanks for your input again!
arlivre
Looking very good !
AndreElias
This is a lot of time consuming work. However I'll bet it's going to come up fantastic.
BenTheArtist
This is looking great. What I would do with the wheels is kina round the spokes into the rim a bit, to give it a more cast-steel look.
gmvgmvgmv
Fine work. As far as the wheels, the spokes appear to be tapered and beveled from the photo you linked to. That might be a first mode of modification. Otherwise, this is looking wonderful!!