LSWR G6 0-6-0T (in progress)

This is my first try at a loco. My prefered era is ca. 1980, and I am put off doing locos of that time because of the windows - how do you get flush windows? However, I am making a small layout set in Dorset/Hampshire between the wars, so thought a steam engine might be fun. The model is designed to fit a Graham Farish chassis - which I already had - and the prototype was selected on that basis.

Details of the prototype can be found here. This image is by Ben Brooks, and on wikipedia, so I assume I am okay to reproduce.


This is the model in Blender with details added, but before consideration of the chassis.


It is basically a whole bunch of cylinders and cubes, plus one sphere and a few Bezier curves. The trickiest part was where the chimney, steam dome and safety value meet the boiler/smoke box.

I accomplished this by extending the chimney outwards a significant way, and then down, and then beveling the corner. I then selected all the vertices at the bottom of the chimney and assigned them to a group. I added a lattice, slightly bigger than the bottom of the chimney, visible below, and added the lattice modify to the chimney, but set to only apply to the vertex group defined before. Then I adjusted the vertices in the lattice to conform to the cylinder of the boiler.




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