homemade graffitit stickers i made for my ho scale layout the layout is not complete yet might i add.
Nice, how did you make them ? I just bought some commercial graffiti decals but I haven’t applied them yet.
it is pretty sympol i use a nice sized peice of blank sticker sheet and i print graffiti from the computer or i hand draw it on, i use to do graffiti as a kid so, it comes natural to me. but you must watch if you get a boxcar or any other type of car that has a bumby side yo must push down hard. i also make my own decals,
it saves me money.
RAVE
Your graffiti technique looks pretty good. That being said, the form of graffiti you have is more of a “modern” problem. While graffiti has existed for quite some time, the colorful “tagging” really started in the 80’s IIRC. The Northern Pacific and New York Central cars probably would have been retired/repainted into BN and Conrail respectively long before they got tagged. Just my [2c]
Rick
yah i know, but hey got to deal with what you got, it is a new set
Fair enough, we all have to deal with what we have. [:)]
Rick
I use a somewhat similar technique. I print the dsign on onion skin paper, cut it out and attach it to the model/surface with a thin film of white glue.
^HAHA[8D]
yah but once it gets old your screwed it is easyer to go to wal mart buy a sheet of blank labels and do it on them that way once they get old and such you peel them off and it looks good as new, as if it went through the shop
That’s why I use the white glue. I put these only on plastic or metal surfaces. If I want to remove it, I just slip the tip of an X-acto knife blade under it and it comes right off. As you said, it looks good as new, as if it went through the shop.
i will have to try that some time, yah like i said i make my one Tag’s to. if anyone ever needed some just let me know.[:o)]
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i use to do graffiti as a kid. and taggers at that time were pioneering, if you had enough balls to go walk the tracks and be lucky enough to have a boxcar sitting on a siding and you had paint ready to go with a desighn you did it, it was rare though
i use to do graffiti as a kid. and taggers at that time were pioneering, if you had enough balls to go walk the tracks and be lucky enough to have a boxcar sitting on a siding and you had paint ready to go with a desighn you did it, it was rare though
That’s some excellent graffiti you got on those cars. As for the New York Central and Northern Pacific cars I recall as late as the tail end of conrail you could still find a few cars still in Pennsylvania railroad paint so I imagine cars still in NYC paint wouldn’t be out of the question.
Ah, yes! Here we go again. “Honoring” vandals and street gang thugs who put their lives in jeapordy to deface (sometimes destroy) private property.
I"m sure those of you who speak with such “reverence” of these taggers would have a different opinion of them and their “art” if you woke up one morning and found your new car had been “tagged”.
YYYYAAAAAAWWWWWWNNNNNNN! Forgive me if I’m not impressed.
-George
my father and my grand father worked for the reading railroad and northfolk southern and they all agree with me when i say graffiti on a train is almost like the trains personality. Graffiti may be a illegal act, but doing it and getting caught doing it are 2 different things.
Quote-i used to do graffiti as a kid…[xx(][xx(][xx(] Taggers Suck!
you know what also sucks people who cant shut the hell up and apperciate ART…[:o)][:D]
ART is something you do on YOUR property, canvas, paper, whatever. Defacing railroad equipment, public and private buildings is VANDALISM. Plain and simple. If you don’t have permission to do “art”, it is VANDALISM.