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Crazy 3D model I designed

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Crazy 3D model I designed
Posted by pennytrains on Friday, March 11, 2022 5:10 PM

I recently found this photo which I thought I had lost.  It's a rendering of a 3D model train set that I worked up years ago using Metasequoia.  Obviously I had three things in mind: Dreyfuss' Hudsons, Milwaukee's Beavertails and Disney's monorails.  If I remember correctly, I did this around 2007 or 8.

The background was a stock image btw.

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Posted by philo426 on Friday, March 11, 2022 5:18 PM

Very interesting,if you could make a model of them it would be cool!

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Posted by fifedog on Friday, March 11, 2022 5:58 PM

Surprise That cow-catcher looks more like a wedge-o-matic.

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Posted by 8ntruck on Friday, March 11, 2022 9:11 PM

Turn your 3d model into an .stl file and find somebody with a 3d printer.

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Saturday, March 12, 2022 12:39 PM

You know what that "Dreyfuss" needs?  A car speared on the end of the "cowcatcher!"  Wink

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Posted by pennytrains on Sunday, March 13, 2022 7:05 PM

I did try to turn it into a paper model.  But I didn't really understand how things worked at the time.  Those hidden polygons and intersecting vortices came out as a completely uninteligible mess in 2D.

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