August 31, 2005 | Stryker This tutorial includes the most interesting and complicated steps of making the scene. The idea to create RIO GRANDE image came up to me while I was watching small copies of locomotives and steam locomotives at a shop. So when I came home I've decided to make one of these machines. And now let's talk about making of the scene. I think that the best way to explain all the details is to show the sequence of images with breif descriptions for them. So more images are included and less words. 
I'm sure that methods used to create the image do not differ much from those used by the most part of the modelers. Just take a look at this wire and skylight layer pictures to understand how everything is built up. The whole scene: 
A close-up view: 
A Skylight layer: 
I haven't worried about polygon count because I wanted to create a static image, not an animation. The model of a train isn't the cleanest one so polygon count of it is quiet large. | 
