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Hello everyone! ..that's me leaning back against the keg, reading the paper. Needed some relaxation since this one was a real bugger

Coming soon, a Northern Pacific Z-6 for the RSC Challenger Pack available at the Steam Store. This repaint is intended only as a "look-alike", rather than a historically accurate model, since it still uses the Union Pacific design as the foundation. Although every effort was made to portray the visual appearance of a Northern Pacific locomotive. Features dynamic historical numbers and markings. Should be available in the next RWA Library update.

To my fellow repainters: I probably spent over 12 hours over three days, chasing down the textures for the UP shield, and finally discovered them in the "Handrails" texture file, including the bump-files. I say this because even though I alpha'd-out the obvious decal files, the UP shields persisted in appearing on the smoke-box, giving the impression that the model file, or one of the bin files, was calling on the default textures located in the original payware ap-file. So that led to several web searches, editing bin files, swapping textures, black-magic, voodoo, and other unsavory ventures. So hopefully this information saves some future painter a big headache.

F O A M

Next time you run into a problem like this I suggest sacrificing a chicken.

Nice loco!

Just an addition to Northwest.
It looks pretty similar to the Western Pacific Mallets that ran along the Feather River Canyon and up to Salt Lake City:

https://www.wplives.com/archives/steam/4664/402.php

https://www.wplives.com/diagrams/locomotives/1948/401-407.php

Though recognized as just a Mallet, this was quite similar to a Challenger.
There were seven of those.

Someone in RWA mentioned after the release of FRC, to repaint the Challenger to have a look alike, but I think it never happened.

It would seem steam is being awakened again in TS2018.

Thank you RudiJaeger, great job! Any reason to run the challenger is welcome.

Thanks everyone; much appreciated

buzz456 wrote:Next time you run into a problem like this I suggest sacrificing a chicken.

Our neighbors are all out of chickens.

@ Jalsina: Yes indeed, I'm seeing some possibilities there, so I'll definitely keep it in mind; Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

We just need to get someone on here who can make a child object make a couple of compressors to hang on the front of the Challenger..............Would be so neat.

Can you post a picture from the compressors ? Maybe I can lay my hands on it.

Maybe the compressers and that big ol' snowplow...

SKRRF wrote:Can you post a picture from the compressors ? Maybe I can lay my hands on it.

The drain(?) canister on the right in the picture above are located beside the bell on this series of loco. (see pics below).

A compressor object for smokebox faces would be a wonderful addition, and would allow for creation of a much wider variety of "stand-ins" for the stuff we don't have yet.

I think this thread has served it's purpose as an announcement for my paintwork, so please feel free to use it as a development thread for any 3D work if you'd like. I don't have a clue about 3D modeling, so I'm really looking forward if anything can be done with this.

I think a child (or twins) might be born soon

LoL have seen that I don't own the Challenger Pack, so I bought it now and will start to build the compressor child soon. Maybe on weekend because in the week I have to work.