This tutorial to build a steam locomotive from scratch using 3D Canvas by Amabilis was a small project I started in December 2002. I did not want to just sit down and write it from start to end and publish, so I published parts on the UKTrainsim.com user forums to receive feedback as I went to hopefully improve the parts before they were collated and published as a whole.
In this text, I have kept in a few of the relevant comments and questions from the forums - many thanks to all those who contributed to the discussion and improvements for this version:
Ian, Mike, Daryn, Richard, Gavin, Jason and anyone else I have forgotten
I am publishing the collated parts in "chapters", though the
chapter headings are quite loose descriptions of the parts.
Also, for some of the later parts I have not included the forum comments to save
some time with the collation of this text.
April 2003 - Even though the tutorial is not yet complete, the model and source files are now available at the Highworth Project Website
Part 0 - Beginners and reading
Part 3 - Complex footplate shape
Part 6 - Boiler, Funnel and Dome
Part 7 - More Bodywork and Texturing
© 2003 Paul Gausden