NSM: Railway Terrace

A couple more WIP screenshots arrived in the inbox the other day. This time they're of the area around Railway Terrace, off Brown Lees Road, Knypersley, Biddulph.

Obviously there's still a bit more tweaking to go with these but they do start to show the atmosphere starting to be added to the route.

NSM: Stoke Wagon Repairs

First post of the New Year after things tailed off in 2011 as we prepared the ZCAs for release.

It's always nice to find a pleasant surprise in your inbox, and this was one of them from the builder of our North Staffs Minerals addon for Railworks Train Simulator.

He just sent me this picture of a Class 02 with a worn VDA van on the traverser outside of the Paint Shop at Stoke Wagon Repairs with a note to say that the track work there was now complete.

North Staffs Elevation

Sorry it's been a little quiet on the blog front just lately, lots of file editing doesn't really make for a blog post with eye candy!

However, I do have a WIP screenshot for North Staffs Minerals showing the newly re-laid mainline complete with a class 86 leaning into the super elevated curves, sorry that there's not much else going on in the picture.

In quite a bold move our route builder took a look at the new features in RailWorks 3 and decided he wanted to restart the track laying to ensure the route was to Train Simulator 2012 standards.

What has been created so far is definitely impressive and I'm confident that we made the correct choice on this one.

Brakes and Lights GUV?

It's been a surprisingly hard slog today to get the under frame and equipment underneath the generic GUV shape.

Sometimes you can have too much information and there even came a point where Pythagoras had to be used.

The under frame itself is complete now and all the equipment bits are there with the exception of the air tank, distributor and actuators to add.

Just bogies and the buffer beam detailing to add after that.

Mystery Parts of a New Model

Here's a bit of a guessing game.

We've always hinted that there would be more to the 'Night Capitals' stock pack than the Newton Chambers Car Carrier and the GUV but we've never said what.

I started work on one of the other items today, can you guess what it is yet ...?