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This is another thing I want to do a video on some day and go into more detail, but also bring it back to video games. Many do it wrong, and some do it incredibly well - a lot this same stuff ends up in games when artists work from real reference. You won't get this with AI.

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And to come full circle - because these trains are constantly roaming across the US, and many hobbyists work from real reference photos they've taken, you end up with real pieces on these models. ICHABOD (aka The Rail God), an extremely prolific graffiti writer, ended up in a lot of my searches.

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Many hobbyists even opt to write like writers do (outline -> fill -> outline -> highlight), finding that decals don't provide a realistic result. And to be clear, mostly we're talking about retirees who have dedicated their time off to making accurate scale model trains, never having touched a can.

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But, because the attention to detail in the model train world is so high, the effects of the writer/yard worker relationship trickle down to the small scale, and even the train hobbyists reflect the rules on their own models.

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