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Melbourne Freight Terminal
Welcome to my growing collection of Australian Train GIF's, the largest collection on the web!
Trackbed, Signal Gantry, Trees, Containers, Locomotives and Rollingstock in the above scene are drawn by myself and Jonathan Kearney. This scene can be viewed in 800x600 or 1024x768 screen resolution. If the scene does not load properely or at all simply hit the refresh button at the top of the page.
I first stumbled upon Dan Klitzing's Train GIF's on his site a number of years ago. I then found other Train GIF artists work and began repainting their stuff before I started my own set of GIF's - Australian GIF's. A history of the Train GIF's can be found here. Also please take the time to read the COPYRIGHT NOTICE at the bottom of the page.
UPDATES:
Sunday 31st May 2009
- Well I've finished my course at Tafe (October 2008). Unfortunately we didn't get anymore time to finish our game we'd been developing during the second half of the year. A few programming problems that couldn't be corrected before the deadline. Which is a shame, but I think we're all proud of ourselves none the less. Big pat on the back and round of applause to all of us at 'House Cat Deluxe' studio.
- Now for some bad news...
I've officially declared myself as being on 'indefinite hiatus' from train gifs. For those who don't know what that means; simply put I'm on a LONG break. Which means I'm neither drawing gifs, AND have no set timeline as to how long I'll be away from train giffing for (hopefully not forever, but we'll see what happens).
Now before you all decide to jump at me and ask that most annoying question of all time - "why?" - my reasons are this. I'm becoming more and more involved with the model railway hobby. I'm also about to start a small N-scale layout which I'm very excited about. I'm now heavily into Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006, and play it quite often. Mostly route building and driving trains, but I'm also 'learning to crawl' in terms of making my own content using 3DS Max.
I work out at the gym 3 times a week for about 2 hours per session. When I come home I'm pretty much buggered, stuffed, kaput. And the last thing I want to do is sit down, relax and mellow out with some music before heading down to the garage to work on a kit or two. In between gym sessions I generally ride my mountain bike for about 2 hours each time.
I'm starting to get back out trackside again and snapping away with the digitial camera once more. And I intend to do so on a more regular basis.
To cut straight to the point. I'm more focused on improving my health, starting my new layout, actively participating within the model railway hobby, Trainz 2006 AND being trackside with my digital camera.
Now, just to clarify all of this. I am, in no way, leaving the Train GIF hobby! I'm just on a long and extended break from it. When (and IF) I return, it'll be the day Hell freezes over. Seriously though. I'll return when I'm good and ready.
Are we all clear on that? Good.
- One thing I also want to mention aswell. If you have a train gif you have drawn and would like for me to display it on here, I will be more than happy to upload it to my site. Keeping in mind though there are several guidelines that I must stress right now which are set out below:
No.1 -It must be of Australian AND New Zealand Prototype, no fictional stuff.
No.2 -The scale of the drawing is of no real problem. It can be either large scale (1:87, 1:110 etc) or 'V' scale (which is what the gifs on this site are generally known as).
No.3 -It has to be in .GIF format, no .BMP, .PNG, .TGA and/or .JPEG/JPG formats savvy? And the Transparency must be set where appropriate. Some, if not most, large scale gifs don't need a transparency. However the smaller gifs should have one.
No.4 -Make your gif look nice and as close to the prototype as possible. There's no point in sending me a Pacific national liveried BL-class that just looks like a big blue and yellow 'blob'. Add detail to it, as much as you possibly can. It will look better and I guarantee that you will be happy with your effort =)
And finally No.5 - Appropriate naming of files. Basically you create a Pacific National 'Stars' liveried NR and name it 'PN-stars-NR-1.gif' or 'PNstar-NR1.gif' - Those types of filenaming are big no-no's. This includes the use of 'spaces' in the file name such as 'PN stars NR 1.gif'. Spaces are annoying, and to an extent makes it harder to find amongst other files. Brackets (), ampersand &, exclamation marks !, apostrophes ', quotation marks "" and any other symbol that isn't a minus sign - and an underscore _ is not allowed. These may play havoc with HTML coding. An example of an appropriate file name is something like this - 'PN-NRclass-stars-L.gif' - Basically it's a Pacific National NR-class locomotive in PN 'Stars' livery and is facing 'Left'.
Sound good? Groovy!
- Well that's pretty much it, another update and nothing new. I've got some kits to finish off, paint and decal before the Waverely MRC show next weekend.
Regards,
Webmaster, James Solakidis - Melbourne Freight Terminal
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE!
All images drawn on this site are Copyright© 2003-2008 of the webmaster unless indicated. Feel free to use any of these gifs just as long as I have notification of where they are being used and all I ask for in return is a link back to my site (this page NOT any of the train gif pages please). DO NOT directly link to the gifs.
If you wish to link to the gifs please do so via YOUR OWN website NOT mine.
I am a Broadband user and linking directly to any images contained on this site uses my bandwidth slowing down my connection speed.
No permission will be given for use of these gifs on a site containing commercial content (Banners, Ad's etc).
Comments, questions and requests, email me - Jsolakidis (at) yahoo (dot) com. This site has been online since the 7th March, 2006.
Webmaster: James Solakidis
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