The last project I did was of a Tiger 1 tank and the thread can be found here:
WW2 Tiger 1 tank
I started another project of a GP7 and just to see what it would be like I started a second project; this Budd RDC car. This project kind of eclipsed the GP7 so I decided to finish it up first before continuing with the GP7. In any rate, the Budd RDC is a diesel self-propelled passenger car though there are variants that included baggage and mail. Meant more for rural areas where it was more efficient to use smaller mass transit types the RDC came about when a previous type of the same kind was discontinued. Budd ended up making about a few hundred of these sold to various railroads. For me, my dad was building a small HO layout when he purchased an HO version (Athearn brand name) and I just love the looks of it. I still have that HO scale Athearn Budd RDC btw. Anyway, I’m a bit further along, here it is at the present time:
Rear View
Front View
Left Profile View
Right Profile View
I got lucky because most versions of this rail car in HO Scale have a much more simplified underneath replication of what’s really down there. Rapido, on the other hand, is very detailed but few shots of its underneath detail could I find. And the cost of the unit is over $300. So this has been a tough project. Here’s what I mean…
Look to the picture in the upper right. This is an old picture when I was first blocking out what parts were where.
Rich Garber
www.allaboardrails.com
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Latest pics of my RD3 modeling project. This version contains a partial interior, more roof details, and more underneath detail. To add yet is seating, coupler and more underneath detail.
Front view:
Right view:
Rich
Latest pics from 6/8:
Mostly finished with the model. UV unwrapping, seams and color ID mapping to take place next.
Rich Garber
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Getting a little further along with the RDC. Approximately there is, or was, 200 parts to this model and about a million polys. After applying UV maps, seams and Color IDs to all those parts, here’s the initial results using Substance Painter for texturing. Only initial lighting and a few props added to fill the scene.
(sorry about the bloom it kind of sneaked in there)
Still much to do yet. A few details to add, make the gravel more 3D-ish and a depot would be nice.
Rich
Added a small passenger depot to the RDC project. Still both projects WIP.
Edit: 6/27 most recent photo…
Rich
The latest in the RDC project is I’ve added the decals for the RDC. This has caused quite the slow-down in progression because now I’m using more the paint tools I use and I’m not as familiar with them as Blender or Substance Painter.
If it was just a matter of adding decals this would’ve been easy. But here I’m having to try different methods of weathering the decal itself and/or adding enough transparency that the weathering of the RDC shows through the decal in places or not.
Rich
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99.9% completed with both models, the RDC and depot.
For more pics of the RDC and/or depot you can visit my portfolio page at:
https://rgarber.artstation.com/
(Refer to the Works In Progress gallery though in the future I’ll move the pics to the Railroad Gallery.)
Rich Garber
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Ready to move onto the next project.
But before doing so I wanted to do one of those “white background” kind-of shots.
Rich Garber
