News - Tautliners on your TOFC consists

[QcRail]

While nearing the completion of the first 45ft. TOFC trailers pack, I began to explore a unique semi-trailer van - the «Tautliner» or commonly named curtain walled trailer. I have no knowledge of it being available on TS, at least on North American route; therefore I have taken the challenge. The challenge is to give a good visual quality to the folds within the closed curtain; and I came up with three variants of a curtain.

So far, I have 10 solid colors and I would like to explore tautliners with different logos; the problem being to replicate the folds on the logo - thus the logo is perceive as being painted on the canvas and not floating.

Here is my creation - grey tautliners ...

Tautliners_grey.jpg

Enjoy, QcRail

[mindenjohn]

Very effective, well done.

[QcRail]

As promissed, I have experimented with the powerful tools of photoshop, yet I'm not sure of the expected result. Here is an attempt with the same MRL Tautliner whereby each side has its own deformation ...

Tautliners MRL.jpg

I need your feed-back before I invest in long photoshop hours... Thus, what do you think ?????

QcRail

[AmericanSteam]

Nice, I have seen these on the road.

[mindenjohn]

Look excellent.

[Chacal]

Works for me!

[gtw5812]

Very Nice!!!

[QcRail]

I've reached the Final line of 45ft TOFC Pack1, and I shall start the packaging and upload phase of a well needed addon. Will be great on the Marias Pass and the SP Shasta routes as both use the same 90ft flatcar. Each trailer is, also, available as a stand alone object to populate your various industries

As a final teaser, enjoy the John Deere trio as 1) dryvan and 2)tautliner options ....

John Deere x3.jpg

John Deere x3c.jpg

... no! I'm not a truck driver; my profesional background is Landscape Architecture
QcRail