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Choo Choo

I've always loved a lot of Victorian design as well as the visions of what the future would look like in those cheesy serials from the 30's and 40's. This is an attempt to combine these two styles into one composition. I've seen a lot of archival pictures and for some reason, the ones with trains and train stations have always caught my eye.

Since I wanted the two styles combined in a fantasy/sci-fi setting, I made the train really large scale and stuck a huge jet engine on the side to suggest a really powerful locomotive. Because I was trying to concentrate on modeling objects and not human figures, I used photos of people to give a sense of scale to the locomotive. The human figures in this model were scanned photos from various travel magazines and royalty-free archival books and modified in Photoshop.

Made with Strata StudioPro 2.5.3 and Photoshop 5 touch-ups.

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