#red train

Featherfoot is based on a Illinois Central Railroad ten wheeler of the type that was involved in Casey Jones' infamous train collision, but below the frames it more resembles an outside-frame inside-cylinder Great Western Railway 4-4-0--a City or a Duke class. Its tender is based on a GNR tender similar to what the Stirling Single carried.

There are four holders for marker lamps or flags--three along the pilot beam and one on the smokebox, intended to be used with UK-style headcodes but with US-style marker lamps.

The livery is based on the fictionalized GWR Duke class seen in Assasin's Creed Syndicate.

Here's some WIP images: 1:25 PM to 2:37 PM

While waiting for the client to get back to me on some questions, I doodled this:

Eaurp Guz! What are you doing on a miniaturized fantasy train!? Ah who am I kidding this is super in-character for her.

After a break and a little back and forth with the client (moved and replaced the whistle, replaced the oil headlamp with an electric one, added a dynamo), I completed the sketch.

I also tweaked some of the proportions a little. Note that when I am doing a "sketch" commission as opposed to "clean line art" i usually clean the sketch up a little more than I did here.

I then moved on to line art, which also gave me a chance to get the proportions on the wheels and frames right. I also totally re-thought the appliances and piping visible on the boiler.

By 10:31, the line art was complete. It had taken about an hour and thirty minutes, i don't have an exact timestamp.

Various other details were also added here--rivets, brake pipe, detailed coupler, detailed air compressor, snifters, wheel spokes, cut levers, the two builder's plates.

Here's the loco with full color. This is more or less how I left the loco off at the end of last night, at around 11:30 PM.

This morning at about 10:30 AM, I started working on rendering--and at 12:30 PM I finished the drawing.

The rest of these alt. versions are not chronological, and were created by removing certain layers:

The engine, cold.

The engine, solid color (but finished).

Solid color, but brightened to look better in a white background.

Transparent version with and without full rendering, steam, and lights.