thanks swankyMonkey, it's getting kinder difficult at the moment as I only have back and side view references.I am working on all the linkages and various parts under the train and the only breakdown I could find of how it all works and fits together is from a web site of a guy that built a quarter scale replica for real ..lol
So I have about 60 pics of the parts he made and I am trying to relate those parts to various photos and my image planes to fit it all together, it's little tedious but I am getting there slowly.

Just found this thread! Good work.

Its looking great! how did you render it in wireframe?

Thanks t3 and Billy.
Those perticular renders were done with Maya's vector renderer, you have to harden all the normals to get the edges to show and if you look carefully not all of them are visable, with a little tweaking you could solve this but as a wip post I didn't really bother, it's a nice effect though.

This is looking very nice. I saw the link from the one thread in the challenge. Nice job.

thanks Joed..I guess I should finish this sometime ...hehe

Hey man great work!!!

I have always been a fan of steam engines and this one is really comming along nicely

keep up the good work

Leland Webb

Webb Creative Arts

I would love to see you do some post work on one of those images. To give it the 1800's, black and white, nostalgic look and feel.

VD

hi jsprogg,

did you ever finish your train? how did it turn out?

Yes, I just noticed this thread myself (and I'm a train nut)! Do let us know how it all came out!

just came back from my holiday... wasnt able to go online for a 10 days.. (its was killing me..lol)

anywayz cool. but stilll wondering how it turned out