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Hi all,
Recently I’ve become quite interested (a little addicted might even be more
accurate) to Russian trains and Soviet architecture. Both have their own unique
traits and styles which appear pretty much nowhere outside the former Soviet
Bloc.
One of the more facinating aspects of this interest was my discovery of the
famous Moscow Metro. As can be seen on this
site the ornateness of
Moscow Metro stations makes them more like museums or stately manors than the
utalitarian/modernist public transit buildings Westerners (or Capitalists if you
prefer) are used to.
Here I present a small, virtual diorama (about 34x100 studs area) of a Moscow
Metro station late at night. The train, returning to the depot from its terminus
passes by a solitary and hunched figure keeping these beautiful stations clean.
Large images:
jpg
and png.
All the design in this is buildable in the brick although the ceiling is faked
to speed up the rendering process. I hope one day to build a scene like this in
the brick but until a magical supply of 2x2 tan tiles and tan arches appear in
my hands that day may have to wait.
Please do comment and I hope you like it.
Tim
PS. For the trainheads, I will put up more pictures of the train at some point
but it is an 81-717 Metro train.
PPS. For the renderheads, the final render took about 1.5 hours on a P4 2.8GHz
with 1Gb RAM. Each light (except the broken one) is a small 2x2 area light
source.
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| (...) (snipped) (...) (snipped even more) Tim, as eye-witness (I live in Moscow Region and travel by Moscow Underground/Metro from time to time) I must say that: 1. Your render is fantastic! It's very nice by itself, but because it is really like (...) (18 years ago, 11-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) As Alexander said (and as someone else who has also used the Moscow Metro), you really did capture the look very well. Even the burned-out lightbulb is an authentic touch. Just looking at your render brings back the hideously loud sound of the (...) (18 years ago, 12-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| --SNIP-- (...) As promised, I've done a number of renders of this train now. Some text can be found on the (URL) MOCpage> and pics in the (URL) Brickshelf gallery>. (URL) (click the pic for a full scale image 1280x1024 or (URL) here>) Hope you like (...) (18 years ago, 14-Nov-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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