Interesting Weathering Pattern

[Chris333]

I thought back in the day they would use a knife on the nozzle to alter the spray pattern.

[DKS]

wow, I first saw that car 5 years ago, so folks are respecting ICH's graf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Lima

How does Adriana Lima fit into this? 

notice the face on the car?

Sure, just didn't know it was Adriana Lima...looks like a blowfish.

It is pretty rough.


 

[Mark5]

She looks pretty ... unlike the blowfish.

[Rossford Yard]

I don't think they did her justice, not to mention they could have gotten a full body shot if they found relcining pose or at least used a high cube box car!

[Chris333]

Yeah, but he painted it hanging off the ladder while the train was moving...

[Mark5]

Yeah, but he painted it hanging off the ladder while the train was moving...

Lol, not likely. ;D

[GaryHinshaw]

You know you're a nerd when...

You first heard of ICH and/or Adriana Lima on Railwire.

[I'm speaking of myself here.]  :

[AlkemScaleModels]

wow, I first saw that car 5 years ago, so folks are respecting ICH's graf.

How ironic, people are respecting someone's graffiti but not the owner's original paint job. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I hate graffiti.  I grew up in NYC in the dark days where graffiti was everywhere. Yuk. >

If the taggers/defaces want to paint, get some canvas or paper and have at it like the rest of us.  Leave the rail cars, bridges and everything else alone!

Thank goodness there's not much graffiti in 1863 except maybe some craved initials in tree trunks.

[Erik W]

wow, I first saw that car 5 years ago, so folks are respecting ICH's graf.

How ironic, people are respecting someone's graffiti but not the owner's original paint job. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I hate graffiti.  I grew up in NYC in the dark days where graffiti was everywhere. Yuk. >

If the taggers/defaces want to paint, get some canvas or paper and have at it like the rest of us.  Leave the rail cars, bridges and everything else alone!

Thank goodness there's not much graffiti in 1863 except maybe some craved initials in tree trunks.

Longmont has come up with a good solution for this.  To combat graffiti, our town of 85,000 has a wall at the edge of town where graffiti artists are encouraged to paint.  The stuff done their is really good actually (their was one mural honoring the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan that was actually very well detailed and life like).  It's a one story wall on the side of a building.  A typical mural will be up and untouched for a month or two before it's painted out by the next artist.  I think the wall's scheduling is done by a local youth organization.  At least at our local level, this seems to be a success story of the community recognising and reaching out to disenfranchised youth, the ones who typically do this.  In the 7 years I've lived in Longmont I've seen a noticeable decline and almost complete eradication of graffiti and tagging elsewhere in town.

Erik

[tom mann]

Sure, just didn't know it was Adriana Lima...looks like a blowfish.

It looks like ICH got the left side correct (face's right side) and not so much the right.  Maybe he was using a photo that was heavily shadowed and "interpolated"?

[ednadolski]

You know you're a nerd when...

You first heard of ICH and/or Adriana Lima on Railwire.

Guilty!

[DKS]

Sure, just didn't know it was Adriana Lima...looks like a blowfish.

It looks like ICH got the left side correct (face's right side) and not so much the right.  Maybe he was using a photo that was heavily shadowed and "interpolated"?

Well, for one thing, he was working from a flipped image (either that, or the original photo in the prior post was flipped). Look at the earrings and the tilt of the head. Having worked as a commercial mural artist many, many moons ago, I can speak from experience that it's a challenge to adapt a small photo into a large mural without either expert skill or some kind of plotting tools (a grid, for instance). Under the circumstances, I doubt ICH had either, and so some of the proportions are off. Look at the eyes, for instance; her irises are much larger than they were rendered, the head shape is wrong, the eyes are placed too high, the ear is where it belongs on an alien from Avatar, etc., etc. A for effort, B+ for execution (coloring and shading), C for accuracy.

[Iain]

You know you're a nerd when...

You first heard of ICH and/or Adriana Lima on Railwire.

[I'm speaking of myself here.]  :

Lol, me too.

[tom mann]

Well, for one thing, he was working from a flipped image (either that, or the original photo in the prior post was flipped). Look at the earrings and the tilt of the head. Having worked as a commercial mural artist many, many moons ago, I can speak from experience that it's a challenge to adapt a small photo into a large mural without either expert skill or some kind of plotting tools (a grid, for instance). Under the circumstances, I doubt ICH had either, and so some of the proportions are off. Look at the eyes, for instance; her irises are much larger than they were rendered, the head shape is wrong, the eyes are placed too high, the ear is where it belongs on an alien from Avatar, etc., etc. A for effort, B+ for execution (coloring and shading), C for accuracy.

Oh, all that is true.  But considering he probably did this at night *and* the face is recognizable, good job.  As I recall, ICH was a railfan who got into graf after seeing it so many times.

So, if I convert the image to artwork suitable for a graf decal, would you guys rather have:

1) Face as painted
2) Corrected Face using actual photo

[Philip H]

As painted Tom, and I'll take two sets in N scale please.