On Sunday I had a fantastic time operating on Tony Thompson's layout, depicting the southern pacific in 1953. It's a fictional branch centered around Lompoc and Santa Rosalia on the central coast.

Angeline Era is out NOW!!! ^.^ here's a breakdown of some elements and techniques I used to create the HUGE visual world of Era. Ultra-dense action and secrets meant a bigger focus than ever on visual clarity and communication! ⚔️🔍 See it in action!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

pretty much done with the FAMAS texture aside from a couple spots where i wanna tidy up the highlights and some pixel level polish, gonna try and finish it either tomorrow or over the weekend and then upload it to gamebanana for all the 3 people still downloading CS 1.6 skins 💅

So I have a conundrum - this is gloss medium, and it goes milky when it gets warm ( above 25 Celcius or so).no idea why, feeling it might have something to do with the thickness of the application because shallower bodies are fine. Not sure what to do about it.

So I have a conundrum - this is gloss medium, and it goes milky when it gets warm ( above 25 Celcius or so).no idea why, feeling it might have something to do with the thickness of the application because shallower bodies are fine. Not sure what to do about it.

San Francisco streetcars

Was thinking a parallel thought- have they considered a humble Spirax? Cheap, ubiquitous, you can draw dicks in them, ultimately recycleable.

I actually worked on some trains last night! Applied decals to a couple flatcars Ive had sitting around for quite a while. I believe one is Labelle and the other Bitter Creek. I also painted the decks a wood color.

Cock.

Headline should have been: "No more airworthy Cocks" (An-22, NATO codename: Cock)

Happy Tailend Tuesday from JonCinville Railroad and Trolley Lines 🚂🚋🙂 #gscaletrains #toytrains #modelrailroading

I can not roll my eyes hard enough. UK Labour set a terrible precedent and every credulous gawper that followed suit only has themselves to blame when every internet-able adult in all these countries have their government IDs appear in massive leaks and bulk scams. No wrench attack needed.c

submitted my Quake level "One Need Not Be A House" to Quake Brutalist Jam 3, one of 50+ maps!! the mod will maybe release in a few weeks, after QA and bug fixes

well, I guess that's the end of my 3DS Max 2014 key. Why did anybody buy Autodesk products again?

Today’s historic pic: The northbound Cooma Mail double headed by 42206 and a 44 class Alco runs towards the Canberra line junction at Queanbeyan, NSW, on a Saturday in early December 1984. The Cooma Mail last ran in 1986 but the Canberra line still today still gets three daily Sydney-Canberra trains

An Eastbound coal train led by a set of ALCo FA diesels, and a NJT Commuter Train, pass by the illuminated city of Albatross on the Garden State Northern Railroad 🚂 Our Holiday Shows continue next week! If you are in Northern NJ, stop by and check us out! More info here: gardenstatetrainclub.org

Tour de Fussy 🦊 #furryart #blender #3D

I know in the the scheme of things this isn't actually the most prime example of micro electronics, but it still is an extremely cool and impressive thing youtu.be/txQrya-mWVQ

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

hi yes, i am McDone with computer shit. and also the AI bubble driving up prices on shit that's 6 years old and literally just remainder stock left on shelves. and also all of the other computer andcomputer part bullshit

gamer pro tip: crack open kirby to reach the sushi within 🍣

being that this is the case, imo there should be a platform through which any group of folks can recieve donations easily and this should get normal for instance everyone from a laid-off dev team gets put in a group, i donate 100 bucks, my 100 bucks is split equally between the people in the group

Tomix model railway freight wagons turned into their real life counterparts. Tamiya powders/panel line outliner and matte clear, Mr Weathering liquids completed the look.

Today's historic pic: GM23 sits at South Dynon depot, West Melbourne, September 28 1985. Due to motive power shortages, three of these classic locos (GM23, GM24 and GM28) were hired from AN by VLine from 1983 until 1985 to haul passenger and goods trains on the Melbourne - Albury standard gauge line

Hey, you looking for some nice, deep background noise in the form of a classic EMD block and a great run of late afternoon country vistas that turn into a magnificent twilight approach to a city? Here, take this (video by Driver667) youtu.be/rHlx2S_3H2w

Studio 346 is a collection of artists, historians, & engineers joined in a common goal: to make our shared love & knowledge of railroading into a fun, meaningful experience. Since day 1, we’ve pledged never to use generative AI slop. Century of Steam always will be a game made for people, by people.

Hey protip for anyone doing anything creative - whether that's 3D modelling ,animation, drawing, model trains, hwatever - if you ever get stuck in a thing that needs a process to do but you can't figure out the full fo0rm of the thing needed to get through the process, do the bits you know first.

I am immediately reminded of this wonderful sequence from "Model Railroading Unlimited" 🚂

getting side-swiped by remembering the stand of shareware 3.5" floppy disks that the news agent sold from like.... 94 to 2000. And, yes that late.

Melbourne Metro Tunnel opens today. Take a look at the newly released update of my Melbourne Train and Tram Map on the Australian Rail Maps website. 😁 railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm

Much as I like good clean design (and flat-shaded rounded squares IMO aren't - good, that is ), I love this energy so much. What if the classic mouse-made pixel art icons of old got more definition and went wild with it?

Please give this a watch, comment or share. It's a lovely video that's being quickly buried by the algorithm, and more people should see this incredible layout in which all the rolling stock has been custom painted by me over the last 15 years!

My dad is in his 70s. He had never painted a thing in his life. 5 years ago he picked up a water paint brush for the first time and followed a tutorial on Youtube. Just last week, he painted this.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Small progress over the last couple days - added just a little more flower scatter to the wildflower patches to bring them out more, and added some signage for the trail.

Same energy

Curl up today and watch one of my favorite layout tour videos I've ever made: Visiting the Vasona Branch! This route is canonically part of the ALTA, so I ran over it with 4-4-0 #2015. youtu.be/QlVzQQPxmIw

Melbourne Metro Tunnel opens this coming Sunday (30/11). So today I have updated the Melbourne Train & Tram Map on the Australian Rail Maps website: -> railmaps.com.au/melbourne.htm Sunbury and Pak/Cran lines run via MetroTunnel and also still via the City Loop until February.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

To speak from my experiences in 2023 - The company I worked for was small enough that I just could go straight to the owner, highlight what was happening with me and what might happen for them, and despite not having a policy and contingency for employee harassment beforehand, they set one up

YOOO EVERYONE, DANGER ⚠️ This account “tyrooart” just DM’d one of the bidders in my current auction. This is NOT me. Please do not interact and report on sight.

Unruly Card Games - Gator Days

Are you ready? I wanted to make a fun holiday ad for Coca-Cola in the spirit of their old Holidays are Coming commercials. So I sat down and made this beautiful picture, and it looks really great. #cocacola #santaferailway #santafewarbonnet #christmastrain #vintagecocacola

The four Double Fairlies of Bron Hebog - one of them still not finished

what the fuck do you mean that a serving size of a 4-bar kitkat is 3 bars?

A fun feature (I think) of this Bachmann Charger is it has a crew alert - if you just let it run with no input for 30 seconds it sounds an alar, and if you STILL don’t do anything it activates the emergency brake (and the beacon flashes!)

Friday saw the first (and only) run of the AmSteam before she developed a gallop, threw a crankpin, and cooked her speaker... Time for another rebuild then...