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HO Graffitti cars & weathered cars (huge)
BLKSRT8
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This is what I like to do in my spair time. It take many days and steps to do one. Using an aitbrush, acrylic paints, weathering powders, alcohol, chains, binders. ALL of the graffitti you see is done by hand or from a photo of the real thing. ALL are done in HO.
Comments
Merc (who spends countless hours painting over tagging in his neighborhood)
I don't get it. Why glorify these idiots? Sure it is "realistic" but you are just giving them more attention.
Merc (who spends countless hours painting over tagging in his neighborhood)
Because if you are a true prototypical modeler, that's what the car looked like at the time of modeling Detail is evertything with these guys! Nice job on all. Have you ever done any of "Aware"s cars?
I don't get it. Why glorify these idiots? Sure it is "realistic" but you are just giving them more attention.
Merc (who spends countless hours painting over tagging in his neighborhood)
IMO that doesn't make any since. In the MRR club there is graffiti cars every were. Realistic to me means making the model to look as real as possible. Not to give them the OK. I sell these on Ebay sometimes upwards of $180.00 each. All modilers love them. What cost am I bringing to the public by tagging a HO car?? I think the real tagger's should to be in jail. They are damaging real property. How many tagger's just happen to be looking through weathered samedels on Ebay and say "Man that guy just copied the car I just tagged" Let's do another. I just wanted to show what I did in my spair time. There's always someone who include his opinion. I guess it's like aholes. [:D]
Because if you are a true prototypical modeler, that's what the car looked like at the time of modeling Detail is evertything with these guys!
EXACTLY & THANKS
Commendations from me sir...
Railroad engines and rolling stock is usually rusty and dirty and greasy besides the extra graffiti. Making them look real and weathered is an art. You are an artist. Your trackside work looks really realistic too. Great job.[8D]
Commendations from me sir...
Once again very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Merc
quote:Originally posted by BLKSRT8
Thank You Here is a few diesels & steamers I have done.
Your work is quite impressive, but somehow a model (even an extremely realistic one) has a "model look". That third shot looks like an actual photo?
Thanks for sharing.
Amazing work for sure. Back to the OP for a second,third picture. The flat car with a load of steel I-beams in front of a chain link fence with a couple vehicles behind the fence......is that a file pic to copy or is that actually a part of your model?
Your work is quite impressive, but somehow a model (even an extremely realistic one) has a "model look". That third shot looks like an actual photo?
Photo backdrop. Right BLKSRT8 ?
You certainly have some skills that I envy. I really like the pulpwood car's load.
Amazing work for sure. Back to the OP for a second,third picture. The flat car with a load of steel I-beams in front of a chain link fence with a couple vehicles behind the fence......is that a file pic to copy or is that actually a part of your model?
Your work is quite impressive, but somehow a model (even an extremely realistic one) has a "model look". That third shot looks like an actual photo?
It's actually a diorama held up in front of the scene. The background is a real place with the car & tracks held up in front of it.
No one did this back then.
I thought everything looked like toys and brass was always out-shopped when custom painted.
I bought over 100 cheap plastic cars at a MRR auction and proceeded to experiment with weathering using many of the above described methods.
At the next auction these sold for up to 15 dollars each (1978)
I kept perfecting this and was nicknamed "Mr Weather" but someone got smart at copyrighted that name.
I to photographed motive power and cars and then duplicated them in HO.
Every year our club was featured by a different local news show and most of everything that made it on air was my trains.
Because I was a photojournalist other members claimed it was because I knew these people when in fact I not only never met them (I was in print media) and had no way of influencing them.
It was because my trains not only looked like real trains miniaturized but some of us were pioneering with new can motors that allowed us to slow start and run like a real train and this was a new twist.
I was asked to join a small group to build outdoor MRR displays and after one year of it becoming a job I was done with the hobby. I think there is a lesson there, LOL
I still have many of the cars and engines in boxes. I just like having them and besides with today's computer run MRs I would have to modify them and learn a bunch of new stuff.
I know I should scan the old MR slides and post some proof cause it sounds like BS but alas that too sounds like work
The OP's work is some of the finest I have ever seen.
Really great artistry
"Fools learn from their own mistakes. I learn from the mistakes of others"
Otto von Bismarck
I also abhor taggers and other graffiti "artists", but I also know what the process involves to recreate reality, and you sir, have my deepest admiration for what you have accomplished. [:D][:D][:D]
I wish I had time to do this, it has always interested me.
That black Jeep at the bottom of the pictures needs some Graffiti too...[:D]
Trinity +++
Thank you for the pictures.
On the best day I have ever had, even before my stroke, I could never have done the work you have displayed here! Wow!! Just wow!!
Please post more. I'd like to see a full layout. I'm saving some of your pictures.[:D]
Mike
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There's always someone who include his opinion. I guess it's like aholes. [:D]
Yep, there is someone here always to tear down another man's work, passion or interests.
I think your work is fantastic, and I can't imagine the patience and skill to do that fine detail. bravo!!
Thanks for the pics.