Ok, I had a bit of a random thought with this one, hence why I had a change of project for the time being. You probably can guess what it will be, but I started as a believe it or not, a Class 416 DTSO model. Unusually, I also spent most of my time developing it in a Virtual Machine – as the item of software I used is soo old, it doesn’t work on my desktop at all. On my laptop, it crashes if it goes to sleep, so a Virtual Machine was seen as a solution – which is running Windows 11. I might stick it in either a Windows 7 Virtual Machine or Windows 10, I’ve not decided, but it will take a while to set up.
Virtual machines also have other uses, but that is not for this blog. And do bear in mind, I’ve only spent a few hours on this model, so it won’t be right straight away. (As mentioned, I built the base in 2006 too!). Theres also a few errors that have appeared in the mesh for some reason, from MAX > FBX > GLB, so you can inspect the model
What was interesting, when I was developing this item, I had a look at a lot of other vehicles (I.e. Class 207, NIR Class 450 – which is tempting to make, NIR Class 80) that have the same engine, which is the English Electric 4SRKT, have a similar layout, but not the Class 73 locos.