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The Hoodlems tagged a hopper car

Ron Hill said:

Isn’t there a company offering graffiti decals that you can stick on the side of cars?

Sure, I got mine on ebay. As I said, these are based on real photos of graffiti. Links to a few are below, but plenty more are available on the “bay.” You can also use those intended for O-scale.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/G-SCALE-GRAFFITI-DECALS-G05-FROM-REAL-GRAFFITI-PHOTOS-/252053098394?hash=item3aaf890f9a:g:k2EAAOSwZkJUTYjk

http://www.ebay.com/itm/G-SCALE-GRAFFITI-DECALS-G16-FROM-REAL-GRAFFITI-PHOTOS-/281787130774?hash=item419bd26396:g:nowAAOSw3ydV44fV

http://www.ebay.com/itm/G-SCALE-GRAFFITI-DECALS-G13-FROM-REAL-GRAFFITI-PHOTOS-/281817573137?hash=item419da2e711:g:AB0AAOSw6EhUTYnP

Thanks Todd. That’s where I got mine from. I noticed the freight cars in his ad were Charlie Zimmerman’s, so I contacted Charlie a while back inquiring about the decals. He said they were pretty nice, so I figured I’d give them a shot. Not a bad price either!

I don’t plan on tagging everything I own, nor weathering everything I own. I just thought it helped things look a little more real. Heck, I can’t even read graffiti unless it’s a picture of something. lol.

David Maynard said:

Nice. I keep thinking about tagging a car, but I do not know what to tag onto the car. I do not want to offend anyone.

Stan has some pretty nice taggin decals !

Korm Kormsen said:

thanks Todd.

on the stills i can see it perfectly.

its a time lag thing.

they say, that if somebody in our area laughs at church on sunday, he heard a nasty joke on friday.

Hehehe…Korm is old!

Matt, I don’t want to trash all my stock neither. But a few rusted up and tagged cars would add to the overall effect.

David Russell said:

Korm Kormsen said:

thanks Todd.

on the stills i can see it perfectly.

its a time lag thing.

they say, that if somebody in our area laughs at church on sunday, he heard a nasty joke on friday.

Hehehe…Korm is old!

no!

David Maynard said:

Matt, I don’t want to trash all my stock neither. But a few rusted up and tagged cars would add to the overall effect.

That’s what I’m going for too David. I have several with no weathering. That csx hopper just has graffiti. I have one weathered and tagged. It’s a mix. It makes it more real looking for me.