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In the US they are the Troublesome Trucks.... I know, I've watched enough of the show to remember.

In Australia also known as Troublesome Trucks.

Yay for throwing my two bits into a project which I think will be pretty damn funny to play.

PikkaBird wrote:

alistairgrew wrote:I think Gordan is bacicly a stanler pacific in blue

Gordon is a Gresley A3. Henry is a Stanier Black 5.

That sounds right

Go for Thomas the tank engine!

Well, if you go here you'll find a website by Martin Clutterbuck that details all of the Thomas prototypes.

It would be even funnier if you put TTTE (Thomas The Tank Engine) style faces on other british and even foreign locomotives and give them names.

It shouldn't be that hard to paste-a-face on, oh say, a Union Pacific Big Boy and then give it a few scars or a tatoo to make it look tough

Will anyone head this up (scrat and pikabird this is your que)

Well, as I said I got a ton of homework dumped in my lap, and it just keeps building up no matter what I do. And to top it off, I just got a (quasi-)job, in addition to college, so I'm kinda busy. But I have in no way given up on the project, I've just been forced to put it on hold. Any help would be appreciated though.

alistairgrew wrote:Will anyone head this up (scrat and pikabird this is your que)

Uh... no.

Dum dum dum dum de dum dum..........

I can forsee issues with the passenger carriages. Sure, there's Annie and Clarabel (who, let's face it are exactly the same) but what about Henrietta? Or the passenger carriages that Gordon and Henry would pull?

Also, I appreciate that Bill and Ben are the same except for their name plates, which would be too small to see (remember when they took them off and confused Boco? "Coughs and sneezels spread disiesels!") but Donald and Douglas were given their own numbers.

Would you be able to make a single carriage passenger carrying locomotive like Daisy?

Would you be including the narrow gauge engines?

Would you consider including Harold and Bertie to complete the set?


Hmm, I guess I should own up to being a 22yo who still has the Thomas mobile that she got for her 5th birthday hanging in her bedroom.

The idea was to make EVERYTHING. So yeah, when I get around to actually doing some work on it, you'll see Annie, Clarabel, Bill, Ben, Donald, Douglas, Henry, Gordon, Harold, Bertie (that bus is so cool =), the Fat Controller, and everyone else. And Thomas, of course =P

what ya wanna do with The Fat Controller?

make him a carboose? as some kind of emergency break?

CyberBoy wrote:It shouldn't be that hard to paste-a-face on, oh say, a Union Pacific Big Boy and then give it a few scars or a tatoo to make it look tough

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Except for the fact that it would be about 8 pixels across, no.

Dont make Toyland scenery for it though, because the scenery in Thomas the Tank Engine wasnt toyland at all. It was real.

RangaKoo wrote:Would you be including the narrow gauge engines?

Oh, we gotta have the narrow-gauge engines!

Also the Culdee Fell Railway engines too, as the narrow-gauge in Loco has racks for steep inclines.

why not have the fat controller poking his head outside a caboose looking forward or something. Also wouldn't the express carrages of henry, gordan and james be an ordinary MkI passenger carrage in cream and green livery

Well, I caught Thomas while I was in the gym today (Gordon's View: Gordon ploughed through the wall at the end of a second storey station - brilliant!! And also historically accurate).....

Anyway, Gordon was pulling two cream and maroon carriages, then later he had a single maroon carriage with a red double line below the windows.

But as for the Fat Controller, well why not just add an owner called Sir Toppham Hat!

Read the first post of the thread, he's gonna make the Fat Controller using the Company Owner Editor

I think the Fat Controller poking his head outta some caboose would be funny too!

As far as i can tell, there are two different types of express coaches, and 3 liveries. Firstly, Gordon's express coaches (Green and Cream) are actually Gresley-designed 'Tourist Stock' from the '30's, these were also painted green and cream by the LNER. The other coaches (which are Carmine and Cream or Maroon) are BR MK1's, painted in BR's two 'steam era' liveries. I think plans do exist for the LNER Toruist Stock, but it looks outwardly similar to MK1 stock, at least at this level of detail, so it'd probably be easier just to use MK1's.
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Bloopy wrote:I think the Fat Controller poking his head outta some caboose would be funny too!

But the Fat Controller would never travel in a caboose!! The indignity of it. (Infact, wasn't he generally chauffered around in his black 'Rolls-Royce' car...... I'm pretty sure that turned up everytime he had to come and give an engine a talking to....)

Maybe if you could edit the headquarters graphics and having him standing about somewhere...... maybe playing golf on the roof of the final building. (Or am I the only one who thinks that the roof of that building looks like an astroturf putting green?)