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Weathering models for an art exhibition
I liked this !! I would like to see more articles on this subject painting Cars Buildings what ever. Being an (amature air brusher) it’s a nice break from all the technical electronic’s stuff.
Sorry…just don’t think graffiti is art. It’s vandalism when placed upon someone else’s property, plain and simple. As a former 1:1 scale railroader, graffiti is pain in the backside. Try IDing cars out on the lead scrawled with this “art”. As a model railroader, I run a self-respecting operation. None of this nonsense is allowed.
We in Vienna have a Mail elong the Donaukanal of Streetartists paintit free Wals. So she dasnot painting Trains and Urbanswaggons of Wiener Stadtwerke Verkehrsbetriebe. I think ists helpfull for the poket of the town, and e plasent for visitors.
Still vandalism! If it ain’t yours…don’t be spraying your crap on it! In the real world this unfortunately happens but I don’t like seeing this promoted in my magazine as “art”.
Like it or not, graffiti on railroad cars is here to stay. If you want to add realism to your garden railway, graffiti is a great way to do so. If you don’t like it, that’s okay too. I spent my entire career in the Crime Lab photographing it (among MANY other things) and I’ll never understand it; nor have I ever been able to read it (must ALL be GREEK). I asked one of my daughter’s boyfriends to graffiti up a few cars for me before this article appeared and he did so. He plans to do several more, but rather than simply filling them up with the mumbo-jumbo I can’t read, he did one on grandparents (all dearly departed now) writing their names and adding many hearts. Even our grandkids yell: “here comes grama & grampa again.” I also asked him to do one on a childhood friend of mine who died in 1975. Now I remember him each time the train passes and that gives me the opportunity to talk about him when people ask. I’ll give my “artist” a 53’ box car (just to show off) and have him do it on my wife and I; sort of a 30th anniversary car. “True Love Always” “RICH LOVES JANE” and all that rot. The possibilities are endless, and thinking of the possibilities, I’ve added three more subjects to the list for the near future. Picking out which car to graffiti is fun. They become family heirlooms and will not be sold or given away after I too pass on.
One box car I did myself was on a neighbor my wife and I enjoyed talking to. He was a WWII vet who hit the beaches at Normandy and walked all the way to the end of the war. He was a mechanical engineer by trade so I added “Wille Engineering” (his last name) to both sides of a box car and his photo as well. We showed it to him a few weeks before he died and he said he felt honored. I told him it will ALWAYS be on the rails of the MIRR.
I also intend to honor a few kids in our town who were recently killed by adding their names graffiti style and their photos too. They&
Great article! Whether or not one considers “tagging”
to be legitimate art, there are some taggers out there with highly developed artistic abilities. Even if tagging is an expensive headache for real railroads, urban areas, etc., I have no problem representing it on our models (I like to see it on scale models, actually). After all, that’s realism. However, the model railroading and garden railway hobbies are big enough and diverse enough to allow for both camps-- those who prefer an idealized representation without evidence of vandalism, and those who seek to represent tagging for the color and authenticity it brings to scale rolling stock.
Incredible job on all the weathering jobs!
I do thing ,most tagers like to see there name.The one with the dragon was a little diff.
I did like the article.
Amazing article showcasing the premier artform of the century. I bought the mag for this article and have since decided to develop and run my own graffiti train set. Thanks for being a forward thinking group and presenting a long ignored side of rail-roading. But graffiti-ests, plz don’t paint the locomotives- thats just tacky and ugly.