Trainfaces?

[disturbman]

I wanted to restart a stalled graphic project and was wondering if anyone had bookmarked good trainface websites? I cannot find mine.

[Szdfan]

Trainface as in Thomas the Tank Engine train faces?

[gavino200]

34 minutes ago, Szdfan said:

Trainface as in Thomas the Tank Engine train faces?

 

I think he means pictures of the front of a train, like in his avatar. Maybe to print out and put on his train cases, so he can see which train is inside at a glance. 

[Madsing]

Not sure if it's good or not: http://www.trainfrontview.net/f-sozai.htm

Also side views: https://hkuma.com/tbf/

 

[Kamome]

This is also good for larger sized side-profile illustrations. I believe there are also front views on this site too.

 

http://kitekinet.jp/

Edited May 25, 2021 by Kamome

[Szdfan]

2 hours ago, gavino200 said:

 

I think he means pictures of the front of a train, like in his avatar. Maybe to print out and put on his train cases, so he can see which train is inside at a glance. 

That makes more sense.

[Madsing]

4 hours ago, Kamome said:

This is also good for larger sized side-profile illustrations. I believe there are also front views on this site too.

 

http://kitekinet.jp/

Wow, incredible collection of photos and high-quality drawings! Thank you!

[Socimi]

4 hours ago, Madsing said:

Not sure if it's good or not: http://www.trainfrontview.net/f-sozai.htm

Also side views: https://hkuma.com/tbf/

 

 

trainfrontwiew.net is the best in this case. a huge collection of well detailed front drawings from both Japan and overseas.

 

The website is regularily and frequently updated, with new drawings added often twice per week, and icons are avaible in both the "standard small size" and a "large size" as well.

 

they do even have an english page:

http://www.trainfrontview.net/en/tfv_tfv.htm

[disturbman]

Thanks, guys.
 

7 hours ago, gavino200 said:

I think he means pictures of the front of a train, like in his avatar. Maybe to print out and put on his train cases, so he can see which train is inside at a glance. 

That's what I meant, our Brother-in-Trains Gavin is clairvoyant.

http://www.trainfrontview.net/f-sozai.htm and http://kitekinet.jp/ were on my list of lost bookmarks. The side illustrations are amazing but a bit more difficult to work with. Maybe I'll tinker with those a bit more.

Does any more resources come up? I don't know if trainfrontview illustrations are big enough for my purpose. They are nice but very icon-like.

Edited May 25, 2021 by disturbman

[roadstar_na6]

Depending on how many you'd need I'd be able to trace and convert some to vector files if you want.

 

There was a facebook group discussion about these a while back and I actually even saved the post, but apparently it's gone..

[disturbman]

 

9 hours ago, Socimi said:

The website is regularily and frequently updated, with new drawings added often twice per week, and icons are avaible in both the "standard small size" and a "large size" as well.

I had overlooked the large size pages. These are definitely better for my purpose. They work pretty well.


(this is not the print file, but an image to give you an idea of what I'm working with)

Now I have to find a similar image for containers. Any ideas? trainfrontview only have them in small.

7 hours ago, roadstar_na6 said:

Depending on how many you'd need I'd be able to trace and convert some to vector files if you want.

I think that would be too many. How do you go about converting a png to a vector file?

Edited May 25, 2021 by disturbman

[roadstar_na6]

Hand tracing in illustrator

[gavino200]

2 hours ago, roadstar_na6 said:

Hand tracing in illustrator

 

I think I know what you mean by that. But how does it work? Can you make the picture gigantic so any imperfections in your "tracing" aren't noticeable? Do you trace with your mouse? Or with one of those touchscreen pens? I have one of those but have never used it. I'm on the verge of learning this skill too myself. 

[roadstar_na6]

I use a mouse, usually it's just connecting dots and aligning curves. I usually try to avoid having imperfections in my traces, but given that so far I only made car decals for Gran Turismo Sport there never really was an issue with very small errors. Lots of vector programmes also have an autotracing thing, but at least at Illustrator CS2 (which I'm using since it's "free") the feature produces a lot of garbage 😄

Edited May 25, 2021 by roadstar_na6