SR Bulleid Light Pacific 4-6-2 & Merchant Navy 4-6-2

SR Bulleid Light Pacific 4-6-2 & Merchant Navy 4-6-2

Southern Railway Battle of Britain/West Country class Light Pacific 4-6-2
Southern Railway Merchant Navy class Pacific 4-6-2

So, about three (and a bit) years ago, while playing the first Transport Fever, I happened across a mod SteveM4 had made, which was a mesh edit of the vanilla Borsig engine to make it into a 4-4-0 that looked more like an early British engine.

I liked this mod. Like….a lot. But I didn’t like the firebox shape. And after a bit of mental back and forth, I figured I could tweak the mesh myself. So…. I did. And I liked it so much that I published it. And the feedback was so good that I decided to make some early carriages, and things kind of snowballed from there.

So, fast-forward to today, and this mod. Which is both a bit of a… I guess a gift to the community for helping kick-start it all, and a test to myself to see just how much I’ve learned in three years and just how good a model I can produce.

And, because I chose an engine that British Railways decided to rebuild into a completely different shape…. I decided to model both variants.

So, yeah. Here’s a couple of Bulleid light Pacific. And now also some Merchant Navies as well.

I’d like to credit a few people – firstly, SteveM4, who inspired me to start 3D modeling in the first place (and has continued to provide me with a *ton* of mods to enjoy over the years, check his stuff out).

Also a big thank you to uzurpatorex for their Heusinger/Walschaerts Animation Tool mod, because Walschaerts drives are the devil and I animating one is a nightmare, and that tool helped a LOT.

Features
Air-smoothed Bulleid Light Pacific in SR Malachite, BR green, and BR blue liveries.
Rebuilt Bulleid Light Pacific in BR green and BR blue liveries.
Air-smoothed Merchant Navy class Pacific in SR Malachite, BR Green, and BR blue liveries.
Rebuilt Merchant Navy class Pacific in BR green and BR blue liveries.
Full aging and recolor support (and even some shiny normal maps as well to give them that bit of extra dimension and sparkle!)
Sorted in a single depot menu to reduce purchase menu clutter
Reverse variants
Small file size and .dds compressed textures, to help with the load speed
Loads to reduce GPU load – both meshes are around 60000 tries at closest distance, down to about 2000 tris at farthest zoom.
Placeable rail assets (also with loads) allowing placement of the full engine, or just the tender or locomotive if you wish.
like a stupid amount of detail for an engine compared to my previous mods (especially considering I’ve never even seen it in real life tbh)

Specs

Bulleid Light Pacific 4-6-2 (Original, SR Malachite Green)
Available: 1945-1967
Top Speed: 161 kph
Power: 2000kW
Tractive Effort:138kN
Weight 121t

Bulleid Light Pacific 4-6-2 (Original, BR Green/Blue)
Available: 1948-1967
Top Speed: 161 kph
Power: 2000kW
Tractive Effort:138kN
Weight 121t

Bulleid Light Pacific 4-6-2 (Rebuilt, BR Green/Blue)
Available: 1955-1967
Top Speed: 161 kph
Power: 2200kW
Tractive Effort:149kN
Weight 124t

Bulleid Merchant Navy 4-6-2 (Original, SR Malachite Green)
Available: 1941-1967
Top Speed: 161 kph
Power: 2200kW
Tractive Effort:166kN
Weight 133t

Bulleid Merchant Navy 4-6-2 (Original, BR Green/Blue)
Available: 1948-1967
Top Speed: 161 kph
Power: 2200kW
Tractive Effort:166kN
Weight 133t

Bulleid Merchant Navy 4-6-2 (Rebuilt, BR Green/Blue)
Available: 1955-1967
Top Speed: 161 kph
Power: 2400kW
Tractive Effort:149kN
Weight 153t