I just added the Beast of Bray Road up to the Cryptolicious site. Work is busy still, not the slow down that I was hoping and expecting.
I guess I shouldn’t complain, I know of too many people out of work, I feel blessed to still have something to go to every day.

Work is also progressing slowly on my side projects, as Medaware has taken a huge amount of time to keep going and updated. I am also working on our family blog PorterAdventures, but mainly only that for friends and family.
I know I haven’t been active with locomotives and that bothers me as well. Lots of good folks not getting a great product irritates me. I was very hopeful when working with the Cascade Game Foundry crew that we would be able to deliver some interesting products. I was personally let down by not producing a product while I was with the team. Motivation has been a huge problem since then. I have been doing little bits and pieces.
This is an SD24 I have been trying to find reference for, but have failed miserably in finding good cab views. I guess I can finish out the outside of it and then just work on the inside later. When I was with Microsoft we would have just flown out to a railroad museum and taken the appropreiate pictures. I was a little spoiled I guess. Now I need to hunt this stuff down online as I am literally at least 12,000 miles away from a museum that would have that type of locomotive in it.

What I have done with this is to use the blueprint as a texture to make sure my geo is lining up with that actual features. It’s also a good way to build things in place, seeing exactly where it’s supposed to go cause you have the blueprint right there to work off of. Also it allows me to make sure my model is going to look good texture wize once I am done.. if I can see all the details, and it’s all fitting on the texture sheet, everything will be golden.
More later!