Rather ancient carriages I have made, looking for critiques

[VictoryWorks]

What a brilliant start! Can't wait to see it progress.

The bit about the reverser reminds me of the research on the 29xx Saints: due to the placement of the reverser in the short Saint cab, to see out of the front window you have to lean over it sideways to look forwards, known to drivers as the "29 bend"!

[TrabantDeLuxe]

A Saint? Lovely!

I might be wrong here, but wasn't the GWR known for not having the most creature comforts in their cabs?

[VictoryWorks]

http://victoryworksts.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/gwr-saint-and-tpo-lets-get-started.html

Yeah I was reading last night that a lot of the early locos didn't have seats, and even when they were fitted later a lot of "old school" GWR drivers refused to use them (or let their firemen use them!) as it wasn't proper to be sitting down on the job!

[TrabantDeLuxe]

But then seats are for passengers. Proper cabs don't have seats. The decadence of a spectacle plate is more then enough. Sailors stand outside in the weather, why shouldn't you?!

- Any Traction Inspector, 1890

[TrabantDeLuxe]

Bigger brother. 'Cause bogies are better than axles and all that.

[JamesLit]

Oh hell, that's absolutely wonderful! Does anyone have any spare drool mops, please?

[TrabantDeLuxe]

On the condition that you tell me the make (or better, the overall dimensions) of this injector:


Found this in a uni library book

If anyone else knows, please do tell! I feel like a detective trying to work all of this out. Mr Beyer, Mr Peacock, if you read this, stop making small changes to every batch of 10 locomotives. It is silly okay?

[TrabantDeLuxe]

[VictoryWorks]

Lovely!

[TrabantDeLuxe]

Thanks

Meanwhile, I've added some go fast striping. I'm not really sure about the tone of green, but I don't suspect any of you will know either. On old photographs it consistently looks a lot darker - but then we're looking at the wonders of orthochromatic film and reflective materials. A manufacturer of expensive (if you've got to ask you can't afford expensive) brass models uses this shade, but I have no idea whether or not they've got access to a paint sample or not... Someone should go to our railway museum and start carefully sanding away at No. 3737 .



And for those who are interested, here's the technique I used: Using the original plane (cab side in this case), we create a duplicate from which we model the striping. Bake a diffuse map at double size with zero padding, then rescale for poor man's AA. Only minor cleanup is required in your graphics package. Disadvantage is that it's difficult to change the colour of the individual striping without re-baking.