Reach Stacker and Steam Roller

One hour a the Transport museum. Temperature was ok so I could sketch outside. Spend most of my time on two objects: a steam operated steam roller from 1912 and a huge reach stacker.  Not too happy about the sketches tough. Cut to many corners. I couldn't deal with the complexity of the steam engine. And the huge size of the reach stacker put me off. But very interesting objects to draw.

Two pages of drill, cylinder and boxes in perspective.

1929 car

I spent an hour at the automobile building of the Swiss Transport Museum. Cars are presented on the walls, this make some awkward perspective. This is the only decent sketch I could manage. I had forgotten how difficult cars are to draw.

Locomotives and Numbers

Usual visit a the Verkhershaus today. Had fun with drawing the numbers painted on some locomotives. 

Locomotive Thumbnails

Today at the Transport museum, I just wanted to do as many locomotives as possible on one page. Not too thrilled about the result but it was a nice session. These are mostly electrical locomotives.

Planes and balloons

Tried to sketch at the plane section of the transport museum. Had forgotten how hard planes are to draw. They were a lot of planes but most of them where hanging from the ceiling so the perspective was very awkward for me.  Will need to work offline on this ;) Retreated with balloons. It was not my best week-end from a sketching perspective ;)

Two locomotives

Sketched two locomotives at the transport museum of Luzern. I bought a portable seat and it definitely helped me have a more steady line quality. The reason for the shunting loc to be so short is to gain space. At this period it was important, for example on the turntable. Last week, I did another shunting loc that had the same profile.