Danny's models

Hi Danny,
I can see your screenshot of Lord Dowding in the library - have you pressed the 'Publish' button?

Cheers,
Ged

No Ged - I hadn't! Didn't realise that I had to do this.....

I think it might have gone through now - will someone please confirm?

Many Thanks for your help Ged - I'd virtually given up.....

Downloaded safely
Jonathan

Thanks Jonathan.

Hi Danny,
Apologies for the late reply

Thanks for the upload - I managed to download it - eventually!! It's a little trickier getting it from DropBox, what with all the pop-ups trying to persuade me to sign up!

Is the loco only intended for Open Rails? There's no indication, but MSTS reports that it's unable to add the loco to its world, although it seems to run OK in OR.

Cheers,
Ged

Hi Ged. My latest models are aimed at OR. In the case of Lord Dowding I think it's basically the same as the BoB's included with South East, except that it doesn't have a smokebox number plate and it hasn't been through Polymaster or had multiple passes through ShapeFix. This method was a bind and quite time-consuming.

Hi Danny,
Thanks for the info.

34067 from the South East route, weighs in at 11745 polys @ 2000m whereas Lord Dowding registers 11859 polys, according to Shape Viewer. Not a big difference, but when the default Flying Scotsman is a maximum of 2764 polys @ 50m, it looks as if the South East locos are "on the brink"!!

Cheers,
Ged

A bit of a change for me - though it is still Southern! Lots of work still to do .....

Hi Danny

I hope you are well and it's good to see you are still active in MSTS.

It looks like one of these - http://www.bulleidlocos.org.uk/_oth/coCoElectric.aspx - to me, although I don't recall ever seeing one in real life.

Kind regards
Mike

Hi Mike - glad to see that you're still around too. I'm still making the occasional model and have had these in mind for a while. If I can do this one OK then I'll add the various different liveries they carried. Many Thanks for the link which has provided some good additional information.

As is often said "Variety is the spice of life!"

Looking good.

Thanks Alec. A little more progress today..

A little more progress...the first bogie assembly added.

Nearly finished. Need to adjust the Bounding Box and then try to improve the .eng file....at the moment the loco cannot pull many wagons and there is a lot of wheel slip occurring.

Very impressive!

A new Lord Nelson Class model - this one is Lord Rodney. Should be uploaded soon, together with an MSTS activity by Eric Holly. The loco runs well in Open Rails too.

Very nice looking model Danny.

Great to hear that both you and Eric are still creating content for our pleasure.

Regards
Mike

Hi Mike,
Good to hear from you. Yes, Eric got in touch with me and I happened to mention that I'd just finished a Nelson....He said he would like to make an activity if I uploaded it. It was a bit of a struggle to do an MSTS model after 3 years or so, but eventually I got there. There will be 3 versions, the others being Lord Duncan and Lord Hawke.

Looks good and sounds good.