#flatcar

M1 tanks aboard Department of Defense flatcars

Here's a look at a (oversized for testing purposes) turntable, and five of the new cars I've made over the past couple days: a stainless steel refrigerated boxcar, a flatbed car in three colors (modified from a stake flatbed previously used for pulpwood) with an empty variant, steel sheet-metal coils, and steel plates, and finally a new steel pipes load for the skeleton car, which previously carried logs.

Despite the pixel art style, Train Misconductor uses 3D models with a pixel art shader. Some cars had previously been given PBR textures for a nice shiny or weathered look, such as the stainless steel tank car, but this is the first time a normal map and anisotropy map were used. The normal map allows for detail on the shiny new reefer, and the anisotropy map allows for the sides of the coils to have that "brushed metal" look that results from the coils being concentric spirals.

“Trinity #97 - Military Build-Up Trinity”

digital collage & digital painting by Mick Mather