[Wip] Train

Everyone starts on guns, I thought starting on vehicles would be more useful as far as mapping is concerned, so I started on a train model. I haven't worked on this for about two months now (uni kinda got in the way). No fancy renders, because I don't know how. No smoothing, because I didn't understand it back then.

Anyway, I'm probably going to resume work on it soon (even though Valve put a prop of a switcher in de_train grrr....), so I thought I'd post it up for some c'n'c

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Real thing:

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As you can see, the biggest problem will probably be the undercarridge, it's more complicated than the main train body.

Cheers for the comments guys, everything helps

As regards details, while I'm paying lipservice to polycounts, I'm not too worried about them at the moment - getting a model done in any shape or form would be a great achievement for me

Still learning as I go along, just learnt how to use extrude effectively, proving to be a major boon

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Just a quick update. Did some smoothing (didn't all go according to plan, I'll touch on that next time) and did the first set of rails. Now I look at it, the railings probably need to be scaled up a little....

Thanks again for the comments guys