Railworks America

I would like to do a set of Seaboard Air Line diesels but can't seem to figure out how to create nose stripes that curve and taper (see attached picture). Can someone please point me to a tutorial that might help? I really don't even know which technique to search for.

Thanks for your help.

Harry

P. S. The attached photo is the default SAL DRB GP7 model from here at RWA.

In Paint.Net you draw a straight line from where you want to begin and end and then move the mid-points around to get the curve you want. It's a little free hand but works well.

Hi Harry,

'Bezier Curve' is the technical term behind that, most somewhat advanced graphics programs should have this function. In Jasc/Corel Paint Shop it is for example a mode of the Line Tool (and it works like Buzz described it: you draw a line and then get "handles" to modifiy the curvature of the line).

Cheers
Michael

For my reskins I used Photoshop bezier curves and / or sections of a circle as vectors, depending. You can try free handing it with bitmaps, but that will likely cause trouble as soon as you try to move or resize a curved section. Much better to go with vectors on a layer in the first place. Though they are fussy since you have to learn how to use them and some apps don't do it at all.

Diego

Thanks guys. Never heard of bezier curves.

Neither had I though I was using them.

I don't know if I should tell you that you are also performing a best-fit 7th-order Fourier series expansion on the pivot points.