Summer is painted train time

[bill937ca]

Its summer and its time for painted train promos.    :angel9:

 

 

More coverage of Odakyu's F train.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8--1fDQ2Ds

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3ZdNX4cQo

[cteno4]

you are the man bill. i have a pile of pokemon images stored and keep thinking maybe might be fun to create my own E2 pokemon...

 

jeff

[The_Ghan]

A great way to promote rail travel, that's for sure.  I wish City Rail in Sydney would take a bit of notice.

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan

[bill937ca]

[bill937ca]

[The_Ghan]

Bill,

 

What series is she and where does she run?  I like this puppy - more than just a few vinyl transfers.

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan

[bill937ca]

Kiha 183 from Hokkaido.  This is the Asahiyama Zoo Express. There is a little more in my blog.

 

http://jtrains.wordpress.com/

[The_Ghan]

Thanks Bill.

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan

[linkey]

The E2 Hayate Pokèmon - gotta catch `em all.... lol

 

mmm Jeff where did you get the stickers of the Pokèmon and would they be the right size (or close to) for the E2? As it sounds like a good idea to get kids to enjoy seeing.

 

Bill,

 

They (the youtube links) look great, wonder what other painted trains will be running around Japan this season?

[Martijn Meerts]

Most Pokemon characters are real simple, and it should be easy enough to create some (re-usable) templates for airbrushing. For Pikachu I'm guessing you can get away with 4 or 5 layers to get the basic character, and then do some freehand shading to pop it out a little.

[cteno4]

The E2 Hayate Pokèmon - gotta catch `em all.... lol

 

mmm Jeff where did you get the stickers of the Pokèmon and would they be the right size (or close to) for the E2? As it sounds like a good idea to get kids to enjoy seeing.

 

 

i just googled and downloaded a bunch of images from the web. folks have made big sheets with 50-100 characters on them. was thinking of just reducing them to the proper size and then either printing decals or ruboffs from them. contact me off line and i can see about getting you the ones i found.

 

will have to try to match the characters and poses as close as possible though, that could be a rub...

 

im sure someone has created decals sets for this kind of stuff in japan on the underground (ie not licensing the rights)! im sure the licensing is always an issue with these painted trains. unfortunately im a total addict!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[bill937ca]

 

Bill,

 

They (the youtube links) look great, wonder what other painted trains will be running around Japan this season?

 

When I want to find you what the Japanese railways are doing I go to the Hobidas news list.

 

http://www.hobidas.com/news/list/1.html

 

It can easily be translated with Google Translate.

 

It has the notice for the Odakyu F Train.

 

http://rail.hobidas.com/news/info/article/128754.html

 

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ja&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://rail.hobidas.com/news/info/article/128754.html&usg=ALkJrhgBP-3yCg83FQUNlrOzUicpW5jmyw

 

There is a upcoming painted train on the Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit Inc.from Sunday August 28 until January 2012.

 

Japanese link:  http://rail.hobidas.com/news/info/article/128897.html

 

Hobidas news article:

 

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ja&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://rail.hobidas.com/news/info/article/128897.html&usg=ALkJrhiJZUPjxqsI0fvS29mqEUkX4EyWfQ

 

TWR web site page with wrap design:

 

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ja&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.twr.co.jp/info/2011/15th_wrapping.html&usg=ALkJrhi01bW1rt1smwrPctZIyOIjyGZ4mA