Brittish steamers

Morning Boots
Thanks for the pictures,I am currently working on a Cadbury loco should have it finished in the next 2/3 weeks.
Once it done I will send it to you for testing

Rae xxxxx

Is this still relevant for you?

I kinda feel like making these but I see that the community has a very small demand for steam engines, in fact, it's the reason why my Duchess of Atholl model has been on hiatus for so long XD.

If there is enough public interest on steam engines I might make a few, though I also want to focus on making "Volume 2" of my Thomas the tank engine pack one day.

1) That can easily be solved by having different copies of RTR on your PC, and supposing we manage to understand how the game works, that limit can be removed thanks to DINOTICK's decompilation.
2) Respectfully, Thomas isn't just a fairy steam locomotive from just a fairytale railway, the show might have been reduced to a goofy kids show around the 2000s and beyond, but at least before that the show took itself very seriously with it's classic seasons of the television series (1-5) and the "Railway Series" books, that were written by Wilbert Awdry, who was an actual railway enthusiast and that took himself and his work very seriously, based on that, I think Thomas the tank engine is for everyone, so my target audience with these isn't just children. But ofc I also want to give preference to real life locomotives too.
3) I don't know who are the original modelmakers, and I do have most of the talent required to make these steam engines (of course considering how they have such low poly count due to RTR's limitations). And if there is interest from the community, I am willing to make lots of them. I just wish steam engines weren't so underrated in RTR.
The only thing I don't know how to do (but that the previous modellers did) is making the chassis and siderods from scratch and animating them, however I overcome that by reusing and modifying the chassis from the engines that come with the game.

Anyways, supposing there's interest for these, I might finish this: 


The Duchess of Atholl.

Anyways, i might also be picking up suggestions.

1) Meanwhile we should create some steam engine content for RTR while the decomp doesn't come, so there's plenty of stuff to enjoy when it gets released. (it is complete, but now most of the current work on it revolves around understanding the code)

3) There aren't many limitations, and I don't think any new modellers will join the community when you consider how old this game is and how the concurrent game (trainz) does much better, I don't mind being the only person doing the work, I like doing it, and as long as it is appreciated, I'd love to see someone building an entire layout made of steam engines that I modelled. Plus, we cannot just let steam engines "die" in RtR, I'm one of the last few surviving steam engine modellers for that game XD.

4) The tutorial mostly works with fragmotion, which I do not understand how to use, I like working with blender mostly. It's possible to animate models in blender, however idk how to build the armature for the engines and never tested how well exporting an animation from blender would work, as blender has a very poor Direct X support.