There is an ATS video in production as we speak, so hopefully we can stick some live yard action on here soon.....
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mmmmmm. This is a funny story to tell.
CAFE, DRIPS and myself descided we were going to look for the West Anglia trains( supposedly around Ipswich) After driving around sordid little coastal towns and the main Ipswich yard, we realised that there was no yard in Essex. So the descision was made to goto our favourite little plot that we had been hitting over the last three weeks. Surely we could bag one more before it all got too on top..Wrong..As soon as we got there all the main gates were open which was strange and and the usual way in had been tampered with. The one last route took us too far down the lay up and this light kept flashing above us whilst trying to undo the fence...time to go.
We ended up in this yard (pictured) at 5am and the sun was rising fast. By the time we finished we were fully exposed to all that could see including the main road behind us in broad daylight...I think this panel took 15 minutes max and another 5 mins getting flix before all the trains started to move away in front of us....
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I had never really used orange or yellow in my pieces before so I took aload out with me and hoped for the best.The weather had been crap all day with shit loads of rain coming and going. CAFE and KABS were eager to paint but did not want to waste their paint on a drippy panel. At 2 am Looked out my window for the last time before jacking the mission in and realised it had stopped raining. Fuck it...I grabbed my bag and shot staight to the yard. Going solo was a bit scary here because the yard was lit up like a christmas tree and it backed onto a load of houses.
I got my shit done quick and dusted..
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CAFE, KABS and myself planned to do this yard all week and when the weekend came we were ready for action..Driving up we had it all planned out what we were going to do.On arrival we had a quick look round to see if things were cool and we jumped straight in. Walking along the platform however, I could smell fresh paint fumes..??? As we drew alongside the carriage, two others had just been there...the paint was still tacky.!!!! So we had to make do with the other part of the lay up where you could only take hard side angle shots and just miss the metal fence...Oh well we got there in the end.
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This was another solo mission after already going to two different yards the night before..I was feeling greedy and I knew I could take the piss in this plot. Only problem was it was pitch black in there and I couldn't see shit..After doing my fills and cloud I couldn't really make out my outline. So I descided to jump in the train and chill out until about 4am when it would get a little lighter with the sun coming up.... Woke up at 7am and rushed like a fucker to finish up, couldn't believe I had fallen asleep...Typical
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I had been checking the Euro scene for a while and I loved all the mad shit they came up with including their 3D.Going solo again I popped this up in 30 mins and its still one of my favourites. It wasn't all plain sailing though. I put up an outline on the train opposite and all of a sudden the toilet kicked in and chucked water all down the side of my panel washing most of it away....nobody was in that train and I still can't explain what happened..!!!
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This was a full crew yard action with SYKS, CAFE, KABS and myself travelling up the M1.
On arrival we realised the usual way in is all blocked up with the wanky security fencing. So we had to walk right round the yard to find another way in with out looking to bait in this quiet little village. We realised we had to walk right past the 'clay' hut to get in..We tip-toed in like fairies until SYKS trod on some plastic that could have woken the dead. We made the descision then to get in as quick as possible.
It was a bit of a rush job all round really CAFE blammed 3 dubs..KABS, myself and SYKS all used colours. Mine came out the worst and it was the last time I used that outline.
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This night was strictly for the cameras...KABS, CAFE and myself went locally on this one, just out of laziness. When we arrived I noticed that the yard was quite active..more than usual. CAFE noticed that the train had been layed up differently ( which made it easier for us to paint). The guy who was filmimg then panned in on some shapes at the end of our train...yep they were 'clays' We were painting one end and they were fixing tracks at the other end of the train..To this day I don't know how they didn't see us..
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This wall was strictly freestyle by KABS and myself, whilst waiting to go yard..Mainly scraps of paint from KABS who carried this fucking great big sack of tins on his back like bloody Santa Claus....
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After to talking with SYKS , we realised that we had to speed our styles up if we were going to achieve a high score of trains in a short space of time..This was one of two done by me and the total time was 15mins..It was a big mistake because I always took my time to make it a little bit more than a blob of colour....It ended up looking too Euro and I got slated for it by a few writers ( who don't even paint trains )
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This was quite a hot mission carried out in the early hours of the morning around 5am. There were 5 of us and had already been yard earlier, so we were taking the biscuit really. Thankfully enough, all did go well but getting the shots was a nightmare due to the dense vegetation surrounding the lay up.
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This was part of some serious damage caused by several different London crews. I had just returned from India and was informed that we were to smash the little Mets later the next morning. After staking out the yard for several hours we went in and manged to produce one wholecar and several panels which if you do your homework, you would have seen the other writers' contributions..
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This is my favourite tube to date. It was strictly a crew mission and we rolled in around 3am to find the place silent and full of tubes..It took 20 minutes to complete and we all spent another half hour bombing all the other tube undersides..which some are still running today...nice one buffers.!!
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This was strictly a back jump affair and a nightmare to carry it out. There was three different tube routes running through the lay up and they did not go through slowly...After rushing in and hoping over all the different live rails, I put this up in 3 minutes flat whilst the tubes just rolled past me.Its definately the scariest plot I have been to but you get the maximum exposure running on the Jubilee line because the authorities pride themselves on it being the cleanest in the system. big up to Buffy for taking the flick
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....you dirty rat....
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My man CAFE dropping full effect on a Networker. We found this yard by chasing the mainline down to the coast. We filmed our way in and took the piss in there by filming it all and spending 40 minutes doing the end to end..
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BUFFY in her sneaky little lay up.....girl power
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This was a prime example of taking the piss in a yard..It was the second panel I did and part of a 8 panel smash up mission involving another two crews from the south sides..
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STOMP ATS the natural one of the crew who drops fresh ones' constantly....part of a 3 man panel session
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CAFE..who after sneaking off to do this panel, shocked the lot of us by pulling off this phat piece. In the dark of the night we all thought he was smashing the carriages up with chrome dubs. It wasn't until the morning when we went back for the day shots we come across this and nearly fell over..wicked
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DRIP the pure joker..He comes out on missions when ever he feels like it and just takes the piss in yard..The maniac one of the crew if you ever see him in the yard run for cover cos he will pull all sorts of pranks. DRIPS the getaway driver
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KAFE...killing those Great Easterns..This was part of the ATS mission where the trackies were at the other end of the train fixing the track. We were busy just getting it filmed and getting out of there..
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CAFER rinsing them slam doors again..Part of a 3 man mission where we didn't finish until day break and got very paranoid about sticking out like sore thumbs in the middle of the yard...very shakey..
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Made in 3 minutes..the fastest dubber in the west..A night to remember by the crews who were there..probably not the fastest runners in the west!!!
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STOMP..ea naturale'...Another stonker by the stomper. This was a real scary night because the yard is active 24 hrs a day and the cleaners walked through the carriages whilst we were painting them..A very quick session indeed but worth it in the end..I ended up standing on STOMP's back to high light his and my panels because the trains were quite elevated and we just couldn't reach...
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Fun and Funky...midweek action with another crew from the North sides..those white WAGN's truly getting rinsed.
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