Beiträge von Cadoras

Zitat von GamingPotatoes

Do you make the Skins complettly to your own or do you use e.g google pictures and paste it on the skins from train fever?
E.g the Märklin and Siemens skin

Most of the time I do them from scratch, but certain graphics - like indeed the Märklin & Siemens - I scavenge from photo's. The
Siemens I could make myself, but that would cost an absurd amount of time, so that one I scavenged to save myself a lot of work.
The Märklin graphic I wouldn't be able to make properly myself, so that one I scavenged because I lack in skill to make it myself.

In my experience, the hardest work is the very first skin, because of a few things:

1. Getting the feel of the template - I have to find out which part is where and how certain parts intersect
2. I have to make a normal map from scratch
3. I have to weather the locomotive from scratch

Especially the last two steps are quite timeconsuming. Once they are done and the first skin is finished, the only thing
left are colors, graphics, text and decals. Those are quite easy - although sometimes not, in this case the Siemens and
Märklin skin.

So in short: the first skin took me a few days to complete. The other ones, about 20-60 minutes each.

Oh yeah, forgot to post the last 4 in this thread....

And the last ones!

The Train Fever-livery was another request, I've made in the style of TF.net, so it's kinda compatible.
And now I'm going to rape @Jansch his PM-mailbox with a buttload of Rar's & Jpegs.....

The next:

This one was requested by the mod author specifically.

Not one of my best, the big piece on the side had to be scavenged of a good picture of the modeltrain. So, from
very close it may look a bit unsharp - but alas, no other option remained.

@Jansch thought this was a fictional livery, made by Märklin. But:

Ha, prepare to get more aggravated:

Aaaaaand the next:

Aaaaaand the next:

This one was a b*tch...

And on we go! I've updated the first skin, finished the second and made the third:

And on we go! I've updated the first skin, finished the second and made the third:

Next version underway:

Next version underway:

Next update: the first take on the BR 152, the 152 004-8

Zitat von Lenking

Hi @Cadoras, will you make a repaint of the BR 152 in the Porsche livery too?

Done!

And the brute is in my shop for paint!

From a locomotive built in 1911, to a locomotive built in 1996: whilst other locomotives await further tinkering of their creators,
Jansch booted the Br 152 in my paintshed. At first my team of simple but honest workers looked baffled by this thing. Although it
was created 20 years ago, some of my men almost fainted at the modernity of the ET 403, this one almost caused a riot. But with
some threats and dog biscuits they went to work:

And the last two versions, the post-war Germans: DB & DR. You may note that they look very similar. Unfortunately that's realistic.
The DB didn't use the BR 17.10 for very long: most of them were put out of service by 1949, the last one in 1952. That's about three
years before the DB launched their new corporate identity with the now wellknown "DB-keks". Furthermore, I suspect that of those
BR 17 surviving the war, almost none of them were changed very much - apart from removing some embarrassing sigils and slogans
and the direktion & Bw designation.

The DR used the Br 17 about 10 years longer, albeit that the longest lasting were the ones that were converted to "Kohlenstaubfeuerung".
Unfortunately, the DB & DR lettering style was very similar in the first 10 years after the war. So, yeah. That's me saying I wasn't lazy...

I've just learned the "medium" versions will be the ones that will go into the main mod, the other versions will
be made available in a repaint set later on!

Oooooh, do I sense a poll coming up? How can you put that sh*t in by the way?

And the phased weathering on the DRG version:

I think I've got it now, so the other versions will not be subject to experimentation. If some people ask why the last one got such a dark undercarriage:
I wished the last stage of weathering made the locomotive look like they were on the verge of "Ausmusterung" or "Ausbesserung", in the olden days a
locomotive at that stage looked utterly smeared and dirty, with its red undercarriage almost appearing black at times. For example, take these pictures:

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.eisenbahnstiftung.de/images/bildergalerie/28559.jpg]

The 044 270-7 near Pünderich (Robin Fell) on the 1st of July 1971. Nine months later it was put out of service.

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.eisenbahnstiftung.de/images/bildergalerie/30377.jpg]

012 061-8 at Norddeich Mole (Dr. Willi Hager) on the 11th of August 1974 (yes, almost exactly 42 years ago). Ten months later is was put out of service.

For a more detailed look, and to practise my GIF-skills, you can go here to see it in motion. Note that the animations aren't done yet - but that will
(of course) be taken care of later by ze great Pufferzone himself, because I am to animating as my baby son is to stringtheory.