Evening Star Cutaway Update

Not long now I'm running out of bits to model.

Evening Star Cutaway Work in Progress 3

Starting to look like a real Locomotive with the Boiler almost finished. I think I'll concentrate on the front end next and get the chimney in place.

Evening Star Work in Progress 2

Small update in the smoke box and boiler area.

Evening Star Work in Progress

As promised a picture of how I'm getting on with the Evening Star Cutaway.
It's a cutaway of a 3 1/2 gauge live steam model. Creating a cutaway of the real thing would have been nice but I've no idea what it looks like on the inside.

Model Engineering Exhibition

I'm just back from the Model Engineering Exhibition held at the Alexandra Palace venue and I must say what an inspiration. I've now decided my pretend railway will be gauge 1 live steam. Having no limits on cost or space I could go very large scale and make myself 20 acres of garden to play in but at those scales it might look like I'm trying to model full size but just getting it a bit wrong. At gauge 1 it should be obvious with the over sized flowers that it's a model.
I was looking at a layout at the exhibition and it occurred to me simple things like the track is going to be a real memory problem so I'm going to have to use some sort of modular system where I can make many instances to build from plus using deformers to bend the fixed lengths into the required plan.
So with that in mind I'll have to do some tests to see how efficient I can make it.
The progress here is a little slow as I'm just finishing up another project first it's a cutaway  illustration of the Evening Star  I'll do some test renders and post them here so there's something to see at least.

Welcome

Welcome to the Virtual Garden Railway, over the next days, weeks, months and more like years I aim to build a 3D Rendered model of a garden railway. I'll post work in progress pictures and later animated sequences of the railway and it's associated garden. The first thing I have to do is research a layout plan then I can fit a garden around it. This is a little backwards as normally you start with a garden then fit the railway to it but the one luxury you do have in the virtual world is no limitations. Need more space, just add some, no planning permission needed or neighbours to placate. Hills flattened or built, about 10 minutes work. Costs are purely in time so no saving up for that loco you've always wanted just build one although that's going to take a lot more 10 minutes! More like 10 days for a farely basic one but even that's a lot faster than scratch building a real working model loco.
The biggest problem I can see is computer power, as the model gets bigger so does the computer resources required which I don't have a lot of so I going to have to use every memory saving trick I can think of.
Anyway enough waffle I need to get designing.