pic from tonight. my job makes my days long but I do get to see some really pretty sights sometimes
Doggard 🚂🐺
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He/Him, 24, 3D artist that makes cool stuff! My views are my own. I don't use AI and don't use my stuff for training it, thanks. ...But what do I know? I never went to business school! Check out my models and other stuff: #wip
saw spider man: brand new day. Enjoyed it! Went to see it with my little sister who was way more invested in it than me but still had a good time. pic related
Layout update!! Second loop installed and running! Having more than one train at once is SO cool and will be even more awesome once I have more Milwaukee Road power to run alongside the NP
comparing the new model to the old one #wip #blender3d
Doggard 🚂🐺@mr-doggard.bsky.social · 2mo agoplus the model itself. no face yet because i have Plans:tm:
Testing the Chowder style static texture for clothes on Vivian. I think it works for the hickory pattern on shirts and hats, but I'm still not sure if I'll keep it permanently. Was a fun test anyway! #wip #blender3d
DID YOU KNOW⁉ The elementary school student that designed this scheme 50 years ago put more intention and effort into it than you typing prompts into an AI model to create severely misshapen modern versions of bicentennial locomotives of no discernible manufacturer.
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. My truck had some engine issues and I was without a vehicle for a while which was stressful, but now it’s getting fixed and things are looking up! Headed to my local hobby shop on the train to get some extra bits and pieces for my layout as celebration
Experimenting with soft surface again. Modeling skin isn’t something that comes naturally to me so it’s been a bit uphill, but we make it work :) #wip #blender3d
A new arrival: an F7! Northern Pacific had many, many of them and this will be the first of many on my layout.
some freight with a cool leader. Also featuring my newest caboose! #hoscale
Some more layout stuff. I’m really liking this track plan so far, just needs a storage track for cabooses and a locomotive shop and then it will really be rock solid! #hoscale
Yard done!! Track plan is mostly complete, aside from a possible industry in the top part and a locomotive servicing facility in the yard. The Northern Pacific layout inches closer to completion! #hoscale
New arrival: Rapido’s stellar C36-7! These are such cool prototypes and it’s awesome to have one on my layout to go with my modern cars. (I still don’t have a modern caboose, sorry)
I felt like a big bang theory character the entire process of buying this. But it’s MINE!!!!
Sometimes I wonder if we truly are in the worst timeline, then WDTX reminds me that it could always be worse. Never stop making these they are straight fire
WDTX 1402@wdtx1402.bsky.social · 5mo ago
Check out this slideshow about EMD designed paint jobs from the F/E unit era. It’s actually magical and you can spot SO many paint jobs here that were born from EMD’s design department. It’s a really cool read!
Preston Cook's Remake of a Jim Boyd Classic
This is a reconstruction of a long-lost Jim Boyd program - 168 images from a PowerPoint lecture. The author would encourage future historians to put their time and effort into books and magazine artic...
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Yard layout is not final. But I have yard tracks now! #hoscale
Doggard 🚂🐺@mr-doggard.bsky.social · 5mo agoPlus a test train with some new cars!
I had a whole bit lined up for April Fools where I was gonna rename Mr. I’s Magic Model Railroad to Mr. K’s Krazy Model Kars but honestly I ran out of time to make a silly render of Mr. K, oops
getting that intrusive thought again saying “I should make this story into a show with a pilot” and it’s really starting to look like a viable option. aagahhghhhg
…plus a concept sketch by a good friend of mine (who doesn’t have a bluesky) for the as-of-yet unnamed Player 4. Currently thinking she’ll be either Ellie of Eleanor
Doggard 🚂🐺@mr-doggard.bsky.social · 6mo agoI’ve still been working on Mr. I’s Magic Model Railroad off and on in the background, but it’s been really boring and unphotogenic stuff like rigging and remaking models. Have some screenshots of the demo build I’ve been fiddling with of Vivian #wip #blender3d
I’ve still been working on Mr. I’s Magic Model Railroad off and on in the background, but it’s been really boring and unphotogenic stuff like rigging and remaking models. Have some screenshots of the demo build I’ve been fiddling with of Vivian #wip #blender3d
Here’s some WIP shots of my “layout”, if you can even call it that at this stage. The big void in the loop is likely going to become the yard and the bridges are stand ins until I can kitbash some pretty truss bridges. (Plus a fluff picture of one of the new SD45’s) #hoscale
Just showed up in the mail: two Athearn RTR SD45's! NP had 30 of these so they will be a welcome addition to the future layout. Next big purchase is probably gonna be a three pack of U25C's from Korea Brass to test against my Rivarossi model. #hoscale
Fun fact: on their 100th anniversary in 1964, the Northern Pacific Railway celebrated by commissioning a 40 minute long opera about their many achievements, which they called "A Thousand Miles of Mountains". Here's a brief selection from it! It's a fun listen.
Getting to the end of the planning stage of my HO scale layout and getting dangerously close to the “making it” part, which is kind of scary. Hardest part right now is trying to finish a track plan that I like and will support the running I want to do