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This is a model of the PRR T1 Steam Locomotive, made by one Trilby Harlow of Facepunch for a recent TF2 Empourium Vehicle Map Pack Competition, challenging the site's modders to make rather cool-looking vehicles useful in mapping and scene-making. Only recently released to the public via SFM's workshop, but clever trickery by me involving installing SFM and swiping the workshop files I downloaded netted me the model in a usable state in GMod.

This is a rather nifty looking steam engine that reminds me greatly of my youth full of Thomas the Tank Engine, as well as some old nifty Lionel train sets/books/audio tapes I used to listen to a lot (Anyone else remember these? www.youtube.com/results?search… . As such, when I saw somebody working on this kind of model, I followed its development closely, eagerly awaiting the day it was released. And now it has come, and I have bared hours of SFM dowloading time to make sure I can use it within my comfort zone. How lame is that?

I did my best with this picture. Good lighting and angling, some meager scenebuilding techniques, a particle effect and a use of lamps to highlight the star of the picture. You might note the rather wintery-looking setting based on the sky and glimpses of non-urban ground. That's because this started as a picture intended to express my End of the Line hype ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-OgG… , meant to have a series of TF2 characters in loadouts based on my friends' and my own riding upon the T1 going at a high speed of HYPE, but as I worked on the Scenebuild (only meant to be that railing on the side of the cliff), I realized there would be more value in creating a simple picture to show off this model I've been waiting on for ages. So there ya go.

Still want to do an EOTL HYPE picture eventually. No promises though.

Image has been updated with a more fitting set of passenger carriages, adjustments to placements of enviroment, and tweaking of smoke trail. Attempts to use the creator's own self-made particles for this train have failed.

Description

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gng1S…

This is a model of the PRR T1 Steam Locomotive, made by one Trilby Harlow of Facepunch for a recent TF2 Empourium Vehicle Map Pack Competition, challenging the site's modders to make rather cool-looking vehicles useful in mapping and scene-making. Only recently released to the public via SFM's workshop, but clever trickery by me involving installing SFM and swiping the workshop files I downloaded netted me the model in a usable state in GMod.

This is a rather nifty looking steam engine that reminds me greatly of my youth full of Thomas the Tank Engine, as well as some old nifty Lionel train sets/books/audio tapes I used to listen to a lot (Anyone else remember these? www.youtube.com/results?search… . As such, when I saw somebody working on this kind of model, I followed its development closely, eagerly awaiting the day it was released. And now it has come, and I have bared hours of SFM dowloading time to make sure I can use it within my comfort zone. How lame is that?

I did my best with this picture. Good lighting and angling, some meager scenebuilding techniques, a particle effect and a use of lamps to highlight the star of the picture. You might note the rather wintery-looking setting based on the sky and glimpses of non-urban ground. That's because this started as a picture intended to express my End of the Line hype ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-OgG… , meant to have a series of TF2 characters in loadouts based on my friends' and my own riding upon the T1 going at a high speed of HYPE, but as I worked on the Scenebuild (only meant to be that railing on the side of the cliff), I realized there would be more value in creating a simple picture to show off this model I've been waiting on for ages. So there ya go.

Still want to do an EOTL HYPE picture eventually. No promises though.

Image has been updated with a more fitting set of passenger carriages, adjustments to placements of enviroment, and tweaking of smoke trail. Attempts to use the creator's own self-made particles for this train have failed.