Real Trains

[Anonymous]

Hi...
Any more one week I search detail drawings of real trains for 3d-modelling, but for some reason anybody does not spread them to the Internet [:(]. It that, the classified information? Prompt any reference...

[Anonymous]

Here is a link to some line drawings of steamers and diesels to start you off:

http://paintshop.railfan.net/

If you are trying to "superdetail" your models, you might have better luck with photos, like these:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/

For scratchbuilding, you probably need more detailed drawings which are usually found in books. These tend not to be as widely shared on the Internet due to the work involved in producing them (i.e. the author wishes to be paid in some form or another). There are many excellent books available through www.trains.com , the "parent" of this forum.

Andrew

[AltonFan]

The drawings in the magazines are under copyright.

I suppose one could legitimately work from railroad blueprints, if these could be found, or images in the old Locomotive Cyclopedia and Car Builder's Cyclopedia (but their publisher still exists, and copyright issues may still need to be considered.) Railroad erecting cards could also be used, and are widely published, but are not very detailed.

[Anonymous]

The drawings in the magazine are indeed under copyright, but there is usually a "small print" that gives the owner of that copy of the magazine to reproduce the drawings to work from. That is why they are not on the Internet.

Dan's suggestion is good - but you will have to get the magazine(s) in question. My local train shop sells bqack issues for 50 cents each, and a lot of the older MR have really good protoype drawings.

Andrew

[Anonymous]

Thanks you for the help.

I have been investigated many resources and I have come to a conclusion, that I want making a futuristic picture, instead of engineering models of machines. I don't see sense to create low-detailed models of real trains since I can't make high-detailed - a train it not a sharpener for pencils and this needs to devote the most part of life.