Pastures new...

I've decided to set up a new blog as I felt this one was a bit shabby, here's a link...
http://themidlandrailwayman.blogspot.com/

A good old kicking from real life...

I'm not normally one who recieves all these pains and injuries, for example I to this day have never broken a bone in my body and never seriously sprained anything. So today was a little bit new for me and has made me become very sympathetic for people who regularly encour these injuries. Today whilst playing tennis in P.E, a sport I pride myself in being able to play quite well at, (in other words I've had lessons) I was up near the net, while playing doubles, and the lads we were playing against hit it over to the left. I knew that if I jumped I'd get a pretty decent backhand smash, so I went for it. All was going well I hit the ball it went over the net, it didn't look like they could make a return, then crash!

I landed on the side of my foot and consequently twisted my ankle. Therefore I've had to limp around for the rest of the day, I can't even get up our stairs at home unless I hop! Obviously my mates had no sympathy for me and then for some reason they can't work out why I was a little annoyed for the remainder of the day.

The lesson I've learnt here is No.1 never rely on your mates to help you and No.2 real life hurts!

Until next time, and perhaps a more railway related blog.

A Two Sided Coin...

Right I am in a bit of a pickle/dilema, I keep wanting to make stuff for Trainz and it seemed Blender would be a brilliant way to do this, but right now I've had it with the shadow baking, it just isn't working and leaves the mesh with parts that are balck or just doesn't render the outside faces, it's just ridiculous. So this has put me off, it anyone can help me out please feel free to do so.

Anyway so my dilema is stay in Trainz or not. The good things about being in trainz is I have a fair bit of a reputation I have worked up over the last year and it's easy to make content (to a degree) ,but my computer can't handle it currently, I'm getting a bit fed up of Trainz itself and as I've said Blender isn't working for me.

Another nod on this is the fact that my digital artwork is coming along in leaps and bounds, and I'm really enjoying doing digital art. And I'm looking into getting more involved in my model railway, which me and my dad should be able to set up soon. Also RailWorks is getting tons of brilliant content made for it at the moment and is a far superior simulator, so I'm more intrested in that as of late.

So please shout out yor thoughts on my dilema, in other words leave a comment. And make sure you keep checking up on my blog as I've finally decided to get onwith blogging and I'm looking to be a lot more frequent and talk about anything that's related to my life, for example my grumpy mood this morning because No.1 I didn't get my usual morning shower and No.2 I could've had 40 minutes extra sleep had I know our boiler had broke...

Anyway in other news for all us Playstation 3 users, they've turned online back on!

Stay tuned...

Trainspotting at York

Been playing around on Newcastle to York modern recently and decided to make a trainspotting scenario. Here are some shots...

A Grand Central HST arrives at the northern end of the station, it passes a Scarborough-Liverpool Limestreet service in Platform 4.

Meanwhile at the southern end a NXEC HST service from Kings Cross arrives at Platform 5.

The previously mentioned 158 service awaits clearance through the station (The Grand Central service is currently just ahead in plaform 3) The NXEC service has now come to a halt.

A bit further north of the station the NXEC service is seen passing a Cross Country voyager, bound for platform 9.

The voyager having now arrived at platform 9.

Two 158 services are seen leaving, the Liverpool Lime Street service on the right, and a Northern Rail service bound for Doncaster.

Not long after the Scarborough Spa special arrives, double headed by DRS class 20's. The voyager can be seen exiting platform 9.

A TPE service arrives from Newcastle, the 20's are now picking up passengers from the station.

The Scarborough Spa is then seen heading off down to Scarborough.

A class 60 is seen on the avoider lines with 4 TEA tankers.

That's all for now, more soon...

Update time, again!

It's only been 3 hours since I last updated, shows you that I will be updating more often! Anyway in those 3 hours I have basically finished Lakeside station, so here are some pictures.

Here is an overview of the line so far, the track to the far left is just track with no scenery.

Lakeside now has a tourist draw, boat hiring! You can't quite see all the boats, there mainly on the other sides.

Of course though, if we have boats they will need to be taken out of the water sometimes, so we have a slipway.

The other side with a 'grid' passing over, a couple of men watch with intrest.

"How long?" The petrol station.

Also we have a new carriage workshop, the wagon workshop is at the terminus station.

Since that picture I've added a signal box, see above.

Also a quick thing for you lot to do, I need a name for the terminus station, please post a comment with a name you think is suitable, there wont be a prize, but you'll know that you helped me out. I will of course chose which one I like best.

Practice makes perfect!

Recently I entered a competition for Railworks, the competition is a route building competition, which will last for the whole of October. So before the competition starts I thought I should get some practicing done. I'm not quite building to the rules of the competition, but it's practice all the same! Here are some pictures...

A 'peak' (Class 45) waits in the new lakeside station.

The lines V2 soon pulls in with the down service.

The Peak has soon set off to the terminus station, it is seen just before it here.

Here it seen pulling in, the lines 101 DMU sits on standby on platform 2.

Finally the Peak rolls to a halt.

That's all for now, more updates soon!

So, I'm in Trainz 2009 now, and I've been having a bit of a play around and I managed to get some pictures, I thought maybe you would like to see them.

A bit of RWS Gordon and Peter Sam talk at Crovans Gate

For a change one of the Tallylyn locos has come to Sodor, Skarloey talks to Rheneas' twin Dolgoch at the wharf.

A bit later we see Peter Sam storming towards Cros-ny-cuirn

Time for TVS, Henry steams past the rather empty yard.

On the other side of the bridge Gordon is having to be saved by Duck as yet again he has fallen in water.

Soon Duck is pushing him to TVS series Crovans Gate works.

A bit further up the line, Sir Handel and George are having another race, lets hope they don't have an accident again.

I'm back!

Finally after about half a year to a year I have fixed my errors with Railworks, Sims 3 and Trainz 09. To celebrate I have purchased a ton of addons for Railworks. It cost me just under 50 quid, but it was worth it! I got myself the Class 37 pack £7.99, the HST buffers £4.99, TEA Tank £4.99, Class 60 freight pack (IWB and YGB) 15% discount to £16.99 and finally the voyager 15% discount to £12.79. Here are a couple of shots of the fabulous Cresston route by Darandio (Darren Porter) my new items.

Cheers Lewis

Long Time No Blog...

Don't worry I haven't given up blogging, just been busy that's all. Here are some pictures of RS.com's Project Platform route and some of the stuff that comes with it.

Little John heading towards the Lucas & Co quarry

Little John passing the quarry sidings

St Billton's narrow gauge line. This is the start of the passenger narrow gauge line

The same locomotive, Corris No.3, passing the old fort

A view from a campsite

Grays Point, the end of the passenger narrow gauge line

The causeway to the mainland, the US dock shunter heads towards Phorum Peninsula with a passenger train

The Us dock shunter at St Billton station

Hope you enjoyed the pictures may post more soon!

Wheely big project!

I have decided to give myself more of a recreational project this time. However it isn't a small task. As you have seen I have been drawing some fictoinal railway Characters/Places, and now I have decided I am going to Draw everything on the Skarloey and Mid Sodor railway in season 4. To start with here are 4 pictures of rolling stock items.

The first is The gunpowder wagon, I drew this last night just for fun to see what it would look like, it was only this morning that I assigned myself the project.

This is a Skarloey Railway coal truck, I may redo the colours on this. I drew this and the next two today.

This is a Flat Truck used on both the Mid Sodor and the Skarloey Railway.

This is a Slate Truck, I didn't draw the slate in this, not because I thought it would be to hard, but because I thought it would look better without it and to be honest I think it does. I drew the face to the side so as you can see there are two different types. That's it for now expect more tomorrow!

And a couple more...

Here we go a couple more drawings done today. These are both Narrow gauge.

This is Whilton, he is the narrow gauge equivalent of S.C.Ruffey. He is incredibly bad, but one day he had rather a nasty accident on the viaduct, where he went so ruffly he derailed and crashed down below, no one has seen him scince.

This is Fritum station, it is located between Lakeside and Skarloey. It has extra engine sheds for visiting engines as there is no space at Crovan's Gate. It is in between some rather large hills and has some stunning views.

Drawings

Well I have at last got round to using my scanner and I have a couple of pieces of work to show you. The first one I drew quite a while ago but never got round to doing anything with it.

In case you cant read the writing it says... Harry No.14: A small 2-4-0 who helps Edward with short passenger trains and shunting in Wellsworth Yard.

The second one, I created last night because I was bored and had an idea now I can't keep away from my sketchpad because of this so expect more soon.

Again here's the text... Brint, Works Van: Brint can take equipment and workmen. He likes his job, but if he isn't used often he gets bored and begins to complain. Overall Brint is a kind hearted Van.

Hope you like them!

On the 1st day of Christmas...

Who would have guessed it, only 12 days till Christmas. So I've made a little something wintery. It's not a picture unlike what every other day will be! Here you go  
 Enjoy!

Winter Spirits

Well it's only 13 days till Mr Claus comes down our chimneys. Try telling a steam engine that! Anyway I've decided to show you some pictures of the engines of the Island of Sodor working at Brendam Bay. Yes there not Christmasy, but keep your eyes peeled because the winter shots could be anywhere!

Duck waits at the goods platform.

Meanwhile Oliver has paused to have a quick chat with Boco before going to fetch his trucks.

Bill and Ben are working hard at the Sodor China Clay company.

A little bit later Duck and Oliver meet at the Quay.