Did you work from engineering drawings or just photographic reference?
As a modeler of railroad equipment, I can attest to the complexity of steam locomotives from a shear number of parts perspective. Nice work!
I’m also curious about whether you basically went all the way with ZModeler, or did you incorporate ZB’s Dynamic SubD and/or standard SubD, then retopo?
Hello tburbage! No engineering drawing was used as reference… Only photographic references. Lots of them!
Most of the train was modeled using ZModeler with dynamic SubD. Parts like the wheels were dynameshed with Live Booleans. Then manually retopo.
Hey,
If you’re interested I could send you a copy of some original builders drawings for a project I’m working on. I’m trying to find others interested in building some high quality trains for a short film I’m working on for some animation experience for both film and UE4 game development. If you’re interested, let me know via PM.