DrJimi's District Line

Here's this week's update. Southbound platform 2 about done, appart from a bunch of foliage and some final detailing...















More news once the Northbound side is done... including the pub

Nice screenys!

Have to agree with Steve there, looks stonkingly good, well done!

Thank you gentlemen! If you folks who see it every day find it representative of the real thing, then I'm meeting my goal. The one thing that is niggling me is the size of the arched windows. I feel the sills need to be slightly higher (so I can fit a seat under each) and the windows themselves seem a touch small in scale compared to the building wall. It's an easy fix if so. Thoughts?

I admit to spending a little extra effort on this station. Kew has so much character and so many noticeable details and I have great material (photos/videos) to work from. I think you'll like the other pfm when it's done and all the foliage is present ;D By contrast, Gunnersbury is essentially a platform, some weeds and a bunch of concrete - so maybe I'll make up any 'lost time' there

Fear not. My comment was very tongue-in-cheek, suggesting that all the extra time spent on the attractive detail at Kew could be made up by slapping together the ugly concrete at Gun. In truth, it takes about as long to build an architectural brick building as an ugly concrete one (although there are less actual structures at Gun). My goal is still to try an capture the character - whether it be more or less pleasing to the eye is subjective There is still plenty to do before this road is done. After Kew, there's all the trackside scenery to Kew bridge, 2 small bridges (before the Kew rail bridge), 2 road bridges before Gun, the NRO building, Gun itself with its overhead structures, the large road bridge after it and the BSI building. Plus assorted scenery around Kew rail bridge, including 2 notable pubs on the river bank ;D And yet more miles of trackside cabling... again, fear not. I'm not cutting any corners. That would diminish the fun of doing it.

Kew Gdns Northbound Platform 1 completed - including the pub Kudos and thanks to Piccadilly Pilot for making a special trip to the area last year, to provide me with the excellent photos from which most of the textures were created. All that's left is to add appropriate foliage (lots of it - this is Kew Gdns!) and then we move on towards Gunnersbury...





















Best to all, Jimi

Well there is one, but it's very petty..........................the cab has an east end number, but it's travelling west ;D ;D ;D

I wish I had just half of your abillities when it comes to something like this

A person after my own heart!!

Just of curiosity, what's your favorite brand?

I don't want this topic to turn into a tea one!!!! Tea's good, but DrJimi's DL is even better, so lets carry n discussing that!

Thanks guys - there's still some detail to be added, such as a few more blue seats and a lot of foliage, but it's about done. Also need to add the local buildings each side.
Ah yes Colin - DM 7033 gets around a bit! I debated leaving the number off the inside cab wall. I believe we got the numbering right on the car exteriors, even using the 'right' numbers for differing destinations (i.e. E/W facing). If/when we do a refurb version, I'll attend to that detail as there'll be other changes needed to the cab ;D

/Jimi

Looking good, but the train looks a helluva lot darker than the rest of the scenery...!

Sam

You won't notice that from inside the cab The real reason is that there's no natural light to illuminate the train, MSTS rendition of moonlight leaving something to be desired. I textured the buildings to try and emulate the effect of platform and other lights. The ability to create real "lights" that actually illuminate objects would be a great feature for a new train sim. A train is, however, illuminated by the lights of another train and by signal lights. Unfortunately, in MSTS lights are limited to a finite number in each 'tile' and the implementation needs improving. That's why trains lit up like a christmas tree (many lights) can actually cause signals to go dark. Given the number and frequency of signals on the DL you see my dilema, and why I had to construct special efficient signals to get that aspect (bad pun) of the route to work at all.
Sorry - didn't mean to lecture, just explaining the limitations MSTS imposes.

Alan - as virtual DMT I imposed on the good nature of the I/Ops virtual personae to do those test runs. I await the virtual payback ;D

Sorry, your comment didn't suggest your awareness so I embarked on the profesorial disertation. In the future I'll just write "blame Kuju" ;D
It does look odd and irks me too. Same as the feature of MSTS-supplied tunnels and bridges preventing rain from going through, but AFAIK no one has been able to build one themselves without rain entering as the 'trick' isn't documented. I sometimes think the 'M' in MSTS means masochist.

Your shots encouraged me to work on my little project I started ages ago! It is still MAJOR WIP and since the shot was taken the interor has been changed with the new coloured walls, removal of wooden floors, change of seat moquette etc. The exterior is currently being worked on. I have even started work on editing the actual passenger view which includes interior destination boards etc.

I have been working on this project a bit more tonight. Here is an image of progress so far (at Wimbledon on the Dorset Coast route). There is still a bit to do. I have created 12 consists which are the same as the current un-refurbished unit by DrJimi on UKTrainSim. These include day and night versions to HSK, RMD, UPM and WIMB aswell as both day, night AND instructor consists to EBDY.