#express engine

04/04/2023

HAPPY GORDON DAY!

Here's a portrait of Doncaster's Favourite Son, Gordon, to celebrate Gordon Day.

Ever since my interest in steam locos and railways in general was rekindled back in 2012, I’ve come across a truck load full of spriters on DeviantArt. Needless to say most of them are a bunch of whiny crybabies who only upload recolour after recolour of the same base loco and then complain when someone dares to give them criticism.

Well, several of said people offered to make a sprite of my main OC Sandy and reversed back out of the idea once I showed them pictures of her class. They stuck with the long outdated and failed idea of a red Mogul hybrid as that apparently was “a lot easier to make”.

Tell ya’ll what, guys, they’re a bunch of lazy asses as this here proves very well how easy a 306 in fact is to make as a sprite, or side view digital art as I prefer to call it. At least the whining will stop now as I proved them wrong in every possible way with any of their statements that “it’s not possible/too hard”.

I’m still working on a face for each version as that will be pre-drawn with a pencil and then digitalized and fitted.

A brand new Thomas and Friends fan fiction, “Legends are Invincible”, can now be found on my DA!

Accompany Sandy and her best friends on their adventure across the island and beyond with an intriguing love story involving James the red engine. ;)

http://the-orient-express.deviantart.com/art/Legends-are-Invincible-1-584984990

Meet Gordon the Express Engine with Peep Peep Thomas

Meet Gordon the Express Engine with Peep Peep Thomas

Gordon is a large blue express engine. He is Flying Scotsman’s only remaining brother and Mallard and Spencer’s cousin. He speaks with a Posh English accent.

Gordon was built by Sir Nigel Gresley at Doncaster Works in April 1922 as an A1 with a GNR eight-wheeled tender and green livery on the Other Railway, but when he arrived on Sodor in…