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[quote user="MrKLUKE"] "While graffiti has existed for quite some time, the colorful "tagging" really started in the 80's IIRC." Boy...you are right about that. I was just watching old CHESSIE SYSTEM videos from 1981 and almost NOTHING had graffiti. Very, very few cars. I was actually surprised because I don't think of 1981 as being "that long ago". Every train had a caboose too. [:)]  AND the cabooses even had all of their windows unblocked and unbroken. I have to admit, seeing trains that I grew up with NO graffiti was pretty cool. I just saw some guy who hand-painted an entire side of a box car with graffiti and it looked BETTER than most decals. If I didn't see it, I wouldn't have believed that someone could take hand-painting to that level. It rivaled anything I've ever seen graffiti-wise...and I've seen a lot. RAVE- IF you want your graffiti realistic, then look at prototypes and copy the real thing. Realism is not everyone's goal but, if that's what you want, study the prototypes over and over and over.Jeff (MrKLUKE) [/quote] 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
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