Train - Civil War - General Haupt 1863 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
Train - Civil War - General Haupt 1863 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1863
Original title: Engine General Haupt
Location: Alexandria Station, VA
The variations of color reference for this particular train varied quite a bit. I saw one train that was totally blue, another was totally green, someone made one from Lego and it was all black. So I split the difference and chose a bit of each.
When I was making the cowcatcher, the toning on that didn't match the tender, it was much lighter, so I figured it was a different color, I decided to match the star on the side. This thing had a lot of stars on it. 13 in the back, it took a bit to make a brush that would space them evenly, the original stars were blurry. And the only reason I knew about the stars at all, I saw a toy train of this.
There is a weird optical distortion, the building leans in, the trains leans out. Its hard to tell if the train is simply leaning. And anything I tried made it worse, so I straightened the building a bit, and just left the difference.
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November 20th, 2017
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