Sunday 19 March 2023

Poster problems.

 


With half an eye turning back to some detailing on Rhiw, it was time to think about some posters for the platform (as per Mk1). The issue with modelling the early 1980s period was the proliferation of a certain late sex offender in almost all the imagery. At least one of these was used on Mk1 and was carefully avoided in the RM photos as was the graffitied 'Maggie out' scrawled on the industrial unit wall. The problem with representing history, is that there are certain members of society who can only judge these things through the prism of now and cannot accept that political graffiti and the elevation of known offenders to national treasure status was once a way of life. I hesitated in doing a search for JS rail posters, but luckily they all seem to be owned by Getty and have their logo stamped across them rendering them unusable. Therefore it seems that I am limited to IC125s and delightfully PC shots such as the above.

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