The big project continues...

Also, here’s Standard Class 4 Tank Number 80151.

This week, I have mostly been rendering Blenkinsop Rack Locomotives.

Project Century update: Done nothing. Had the morbs. Will probably hyperfocus on some random evening and a bunch of new vehicles will appear.

Putting all this effort into Project Century is fun and all, but will people really play Transport Fever in 1800 with very primitive steam engines?

I have finally updated my BETA version of Project Century. Want to play the mod before everyone else? Get on my Patron and support this absolutely bonkers idea!

Four more enhanced Transport Fever screenshots, featuring my models. This is how TpF2 looks in my head when I play 😁 I'm not claiming any effort here btw. I know this is lazy but I'm just having fun.. already spent hours making the mods as it is. Original screenshots to follow.

So I messed up my version control with Project Century and kinda broke the mod. Was going to release a new Patron BETA today but looks like I'm spending my time bug fixing. May have one for tonight but it's looking flakey.

Introduce yourself with five gigs you've been to: OMD Reunion OMD Metroland Ultravox Midge Ure Howard Jones Yeah that sounds about right

I realise that this may lose me favour or followers, and I respect that. I had a staunch anti-ai standpoint until recently, but I think I need to learn acceptance and learn to use this technology as a tool to aid in creativity than something to pretend doesn't exist.

There are many opinions about image manipulation technology, mostly to do with consent, training data and human involvement. Despite that, I have fed one of these models some of my own TpF2 screenshots featuring my own 3D models to see what happened. Feel free to hate this. These are the results:

The next addition to Project Century is this tiny little engine from 1814, Blucher.

Fancy Horse (In Stereo)

Want to know what is in Project Century as of right now? Here's a little vehicle list. It is expanding quickly. My older models are getting either extensively reworked or just remade from scratch entirely. www.patreon.com/posts/148350...

Why do the national rail links have the most random pictures.

New screenshots of Project Century engines and rolling stock. Still very WIP but it's coming along

Man really said

Meanwhile, in the void:

*walks into garden centre* Hey you got any of them retro plants that always face you and are wafer thin?

Blenkinsop's Salamanca locomotive cogs it's way into TpF2. I can't currently figure out a way to make it mesh to a rack on the rail, but I'm experimenting.

If you are a paid member on Patreon, you will find yourself with a link to Project Century BETA. This BETA is now playable and will be updated regularly. Consider this an advertisement.

Skull emoji

Don't worry, he's just chillin'

Wagons :)

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

I have uploaded my first animation reel! I hope you have enjoyed the models this year, and I hope you look forward to playing with them in 2026, be it in TpF2 or TpF3! Have a good Crimmas!

Animate-me-if-you-can This is a test animation of my Catch Me Who Can model, testing out wheel-motion tracking, lighting and camera movements.

*opens blender*

One of these will be my next 3D model. Help me decide!

Model-Me-Who-Can

Project Century is firmly underway. I have spent time adding a new track type, the plateway, and two new Trevithick locomotive models.

Things are moving, literally, with the Project Century mod. If you want to learn more about what has been going on, have a read of my post over on Patreon (post available for all).

Behold, a very crunchy render of my WIP model of the Locomotion Replica

I have been... Active.

An iconic engine is taking shape. Bing bing.

In 1851, the Semmering Trials were held in Austria. Lesser known than the Rainhill Trials, the Semmering Trials advanced the development of articulated locomotives. This was the early stages of the articulated locomotive, and like any early locomotives, these were wacky designs.

Lumo has shown us that a blue train can work. There's potential with this design right up to the first door. If they had just tkept the lining horizontal from then on, and keep colours blocked, it would be SO much better and even good. Would hark back to NSE and even the APT a little 2/10

Please let this be a mockup because this looks awful

Being deep into early railway history means I see a photo of a locomotive from like the 1890s and my brain goes "oh yeah it's one of the new ones" because my sense of an old engine has been shifted dramatically.

The fact this many engines from 1829 still exist is crazy. 2 of the 3 competitors of the Rainhill Trials 2 sequencial engines in Rocket and Invicta And whatever was going on at Foster and Rastrick There's also Stourbridge Lion in America but it's missing some bits.

Just make it like Rocket, ok? Don't over complicate the motion. J and C Carmichael:

Old map detected.

If you see this, post a monster. I took it literally.

A group of Midland engines is called a Derby This is a Derby of engines

The fact that railway historians can look at this thing and be like "Yeah that seems about right" says a LOT about how batshit crazy the early days of steam was.

Steam Road vehicle but it's Flintstones

Transport Fever 2 lookin photo

Killingworth Locomotive but with extra steps and, what looks like, inside coupling rods. Plus a chain driven tender for extra omph

Don't brake too heavily with this locomotive.

Wait... where the hell is the firebox What fuck?