MS Project Thread

[mishtahshneaks]

Hey.

I've recently been dabbling in the "dark arts" of retexturing. Or... more aptly, how to. This thread serves as a way to showcase whatever I've been working on for OpenRails in my free time.






Starting things off (in more ways than one) I've taken to retexturing the NAVS 40ft "PS-Style" boxcars into the fictional Canton Railroad. Thankfully, it's not my first retexture (in fact, it's my third!). Originally, I was going to keep these for myself, but once I retexture a few more, I'll consider making a small pack of Canton lettered cars.

[eric]

Nicely staged.

[Orbita]

Nice to see a classic fictional railroad see the light again.

[mishtahshneaks]

Foobie Illinois Central 100-Ton hoppers. Pay no mind to the missing 4th chute. Wanting to cover all the bases possible, I attempted to depict four different liveries. Those being the 1968 Split Rail, 1972 ICG, plus two repainted variations of both. While I was working on these, I took a slight detour and tried my hand at some rust. I liked the look enough that I'll likely include it was an alternate texture sheet for end-users to swap out themselves. The bottom two images show the alternate, rusted variation.

[mishtahshneaks]

Unfortunately for me, I wasn't aware that there were quad door hoppers. Fortunately, it means that with a few adjustments, I can easily refit the lettering and weathering to the more accurate model. Same points apply to the previous one: Four liveries, and an alternate "rusted" texture. However, now each car only has two number variations. Once I go through them with a fine-toothed comb, they should be up on the library shortly.

[CSRX]

Always did like the IC Split rail logo. Looks great on those hoppers.

[rrdiesel87]

Nice work, some great looking hoppers there!

[Erick_Cantu]

Really digging the Canton cars. Dick's approach heavily inspired the "kit" ideology behind my current cars and locomotives, right down to the simple fictional base textures.