DudeTheNinja

Thanks for the feedback! If Hornby does see this and consider that, that'd be surprising considering this was my third attempt at painting actual usable rolling stock (and first time on a non-kit loco), so I guess I'm learning pretty quickly! (And if any big brands do make Rail Blue steam locos as a result of my work, mind sending me some of the money? 😂) I think I once saw a Rail Blue (with large logo) Caley on eBay a few months ago. Was quite neatly done, though sadly either it got sold or hasn't been relisted so I can't find any pictures of it.

Been meaning to share this for a couple of weeks but RMWeb has been dead so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I painted up a Hornby Jinty (1980's-era tooling I think) in BR Rail Blue for the hell of it. A sort of "what if BR had kept some steam locos as shunters", hence there's no full TOPS number as it's just departmental stock. I am extremely happy with how this came out. 🙂 The blue is Citadel Macragge Blue, yellow is Citadel Phalanx Yellow, and the black stripes are just some cheapish Mars Black acrylic. Transfers are from Fox, and my first attempt with them.

I'd say it counts. It's not a prototypical livery, after all. I have something similar that I got from the Kent and East Sussex as a kid. Seems that Dapol do them as commissioned models, and a couple of preserved railways are among the list of clients they've worked with before (in OO).

Finally got round to doing another - this time the RED wagon I promised I'd do. Probably going to do something a bit more "real world" next - thinking of painting up an old Tri-ang Jinty in BR Rail Blue, kinda like if it were still in use as a shunter alongside the 08s in the TOPS era.

Oops, forgot to share the completed wagon, with weathering, "ambient occlusion" (since the models in TF2 have ambient occlusion in the raw texture images rather than being done on the fly) and BLU-team insignia! Pretty happy with how it turned out. Everything was done by hand, well, er, brush. I've made a start on a RED-team mineral wagon, which'll have its load repainted to be a reddish dusty sand-gravel, just like the environment the game's maps tend to be set in.

Some more progress on the TF2 van. Pretty happy with the paintjob so far, even if the "patches" are kinda glossy.

Hi! New here. As I'm a fan of video games, I had the idea of making wagon liveries based on fictitious companies in games (think Vault-Tec from Fallout, the UAC from Doom, etc.). I'm currently working on a van with a livery based on the artstyle found in Team Fortress 2 - muted colours with visible patches of more saturated colours, visible brush strokes, and the like. Here's the roof (again, the brush strokes are intentional, i'm trying to replicate a video game's art style, not making a realistic paint job). Probably going to make a BLU-team van, and then afterwards, a RED-team mineral wagon with gravel in it (as gravel is considered by the leaders of the game's two main factions to be the most valuable thing ever). I have some vague plans for more wagons down the line, including an Aperture Science gel tanker.