That's good news! I'm a total beginner at mod making for Tpf2, but I want to try and start my first project! I hope that will be not too much painful to convert the model from sketchup! I hope that Licaon could give me some advices!
Making the ETR 450 "Pendolino" is a bit complicated because I can't find high resolution schematics and there's a lot of details to replicate, but I think that the nose was a really tough part and that it came out fairly well. My plan is to make the pilot carriage, normal carriage, carriage with pantograph, central carriage (i think is the Cafe but I can't find any clue or image about that). With these I believe I would be able to put together the complete configuration
Do you also plan to make the ETR 401, the first Pendolino?
With that beautiful project, it should come up with very few changes.
We follow you. I repeat, great job.