4
4: Railgon 310046 sits alone on a spur as the afternoon
sun filters down through the trees.
Dave Branum says, “I built this O scale Railgon from an Ed
Reutling/Bill Ramey resin kit. I added the graffiti and weathering
using acrylics.”
We like the simple realism Dave has achieved with this model.
The gondola isn’t a “rust bucket” but has the look of a working
car that’s seeing good use, but isn’t on its last legs. This kind of
model is a lot more typical, and to get the best realism, we feel
you should model the typical instead of the unusual.
We also like the light graffiti. We aren’t fans of modern graffiti,
since it is after all, vandalism – but if you’re going to model graf-
fiti, then the light application Dave applied to this gondola con-
veys the more modern graffiti look without obliterating the car.
