Darkfoxx Den

Well, now that my site works again (had trouble getting my post to show up), here's what I been doing lately.

Spaceships were nice, but this is better ^.^

Trainz 2010 is a (model) railroad simulator, more cheap then RL model trains (few hundred euro's for a locomotive ist an exception) and much less space consuming. Ideal for my train fix untill I am old and retired, and have time and space and money to finally build that huge track in my house's attic.

It builds (and drives)  pretty much like a model railroad, you start with creating the landscape, putting down rails and all sorts of scenery readily available in the game, like cars, streetlights, roads, buildings people etc etc, add colour to the landscape, plant trees and so on.

Here's what I started with, the harbour area is more or less finished (except for signals, still figuring out how they work: can get quite confusing if you have 5 or 6 different ones per country and a good couple of different countries available), the rest is still very much a work in progress. There's some nice details in there, like an animated container crane unloading the ship, seagull sounds and other little features.

Coalbunker just outside of the harbour area.

If you like trains but dont want to spend a LOT of money and space on a model railroad, this is a very nice alternative. TONS of content is already on the disk ( I have yet to download a single item, all you see here is standard), and new stuff is made by a handsomely large fanbase.  First thing I will be downloading will probably be some military models, theres a sherman tank as a scenery item (I used it for a monument) but a couple of Abrahms' would do nicely as cargo on a train. Maybe make a small army base somewhere in the mountains, connected via a sideline :)

My little baby, the main steam- and diesel loc service :) It has it's own seperate supply line of a narrow track railway, coming directly from the coalmines up in the mountains. The yard on the right with the cars needs a bit more work in adding switches to be able to couple from either side of the trains, and on the far right is the narrow track service area with it's own coal, sand and water bunkers and loc workshop.