Vintage Riverboat.

[jpetersjr]

Of course, I wish I could, but neither was the music from the error, and also sound causes some problems in RW. At the moment the version that me and a friend will have chugging down the river will have steam boat engine sounds on it.

[jpetersjr]

A little more progress on the riverboat.

Vintage Riverboat Progress 4A.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[NSrailfan6130]

Nice looking good

[jpetersjr]

What's any kind of ship without the ship ladders.

Vintage Riverboat Progress 5 A.jpg

Vintage Riverboat Progress 5 B.jpg

Vintage Riverboat Progress 5 C.jpg

Alright, the stairs and the guardrails are finally completely finished, this ship is drawing real close to being finished, very soon I'll try it out in the sim and then release it to the community soon afterwards.

Vintage Riverboat Progress 5 D.jpg

Vintage Riverboat Progress 5 E.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[nsl714]

I'm not entirely convinced of the shrouds which hold the paddles. They're sitting pretty high on the boat, and unless the paddles are actually chains on a pair of sprockets, they wouldn't be hitting the water. Perhaps get rid of the rectangular bits under the round part of the covers?

[jpetersjr]

Paddles hasn't been installed yet, the wheels are the next thing to build.

Here you go, a picture of a riverboat with a very similar shroud.

riverboat A.jpg

[jpetersjr]

Still have some work to do on the riverboat and it's not finished yet, but here's a couple of teaser shots of what the riverboat will look like when it's finished and in the sim.

Vintage Riverboat Teaser A.jpg

Vintage Riverboat Teaser B.jpg

Vintage Riverboat Teaser C.jpg

Vintage Riverboat Teaser D.jpg

Vintage Riverboat Teaser E.jpg

And yes, the paddlewheel would have probably been run on a chain and sprocket. Since I've seen one similar to this before.


...Cheers...


Big J


Once this is released to the community I'd love to see it shown in one of the Any Route Any Era screenshots featuring your river on your route.

[jpetersjr]

Alright, the steamboat has it's paddlewheels.

Vintage Riverboat Progress 6 A.jpg

Vintage Riverboat Progress 6 B.jpg

Also, be known, these early riverboats didn't have rudders and they didn't have ship's wheel, they were steered by halting the spinning of one of the paddle wheels so the other spinning wheel would slowly turn it in the direction it needed to go. They were specially designed for traveling up the river against the current.


...Cheers...

Big J