SNEAK PEEK: All City Style trains for The Grand Slam (Nov 22 at PIQ)

L, top to bottom: Bio TATS CRU, NICER & BG183. R, top to bottom: Spencer Herr, Original GEE & Ralston Fox Smith.

We are super excited for Saturday, which is the launch of the next show that we are helping out with! Klim Kozinevich, owner of Bigshot Toyworks and creator of the All City Style 20-inch DIY trains, managed to pull together an absolutely ALL-STAR crew of artists for this show, which he dubbed The Grand Slam. Graffiti legends, designers, and artists of all stripes all exhibiting together at PIQ in Grand Central in NYC!

RSVP to the show here on Facebook or just drop by PIQ at 4PM on Saturday November 22nd to check out the trains. 

If you can't make it to NYC for this show, make sure you are following All City Style on Facebook and on the All City Style website. There will be many more ACS shows popping up around the world, as the next batch of All City Style trains are set to hit US shores in early December. Ask your favorite retailer to stock All City Style!

Till Saturday, we leave with with the video below of some of the trains Original GEE had painted in the past... chalk another one up for this legendary artist!

Bigshot Toyworks and PIQ Products Present THE GRAND SLAM on November 22

Bigshot Toyworks and PIQ Products present The Grand Slam, an art show of one-of-a-kind custom painted All City Style subway train models. The Grand Slam opens on November 22, 2014 at 4PM in the PIQ shop located in the Shuttle Passage of New York’s Grand Central Terminal.

The All City Style train is a DIY platform representing one of the most iconic (and controversial) canvases for street artists and writers worldwide: the NYC subway train. Created by Klim Kozinevich, and produced by Bigshot Toyworks, the All City Style trains were tremendously popular upon their introduction in 2004. Supported by multiple art shows in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Moscow, Melbourne, and more, the All City Style trains were embraced by the street art, fine art, and designer toy communities. Artists of all styles agree that the All City Style train is an excellent and unique platform for expression. In celebration of a decade of All City Style trains, PIQ gallery and Bigshot Toyworks proudly present The Grand Slam: the next chapter in this ever-evolving concept.

The artist roster for The Grand Slam includes some of the most respected names in graffiti and street art:
PHASE 2 • VULCAN • DOME • RIFF 170 • CHOR BOOGIE • Glenn Barr • SCIEN • KLOR • Louie "KR.ONE" Gasparro • AW177 • Galen McKamy • Brutherford • Steve Talkowski • Martin Hsu • Joshua Izzo • Luis "ZIMAD" Lamboy • BRISK • APEXER • Tkid • Ralston Fox Smith • Gabriel Shaffer • Tragnark • Lou Pimentel • Joe MacCarthy • James "SEXER" Rodriguez • Rob W Hunt • Eternal • Task One • Kurt Barbee • Bio • BG183 • NICER • DERO • PER • Frank Kozik • AngryBlue • Frank "Wore" Croce • Eric Orr • MCA • MERES CBS • Part TDS • Carlie Ramer • Hieronymus • Spencer Herr • Original Gee & more

This show is open to the public and the pieces will be available for purchase in the PIQ shop, with pickup available 2 weeks after the opening. Art aficionados of all ages are welcome to attend the show, as are members of the press. Blank All City Style trains will be available for purchase at PIQ or from one of the All City Style retail partners listed on the website:
http://www.allcitystyle.com/

Kids can download the All City Style training page or papercraft model from the All City Style Downloads page:
http://www.allcitystyle.com/downloads

Check the list of All City Style retailers:
http://www.allcitystyle.com/retail-shops

Visit PIQ Products:
http://www.piqproducts.com/

Learn more about Bigshot Toyworks:
http://www.bigshottoyworks.com/

All City Style Trains are back on track and available to shops at wholesale

Big news from Bigshot Toyworks: their insanely popular All City Style blank subway trains are back! Bigshot is now accepting wholesale orders from shops interested in restocking this product which sold out nearly everywhere, world-wide. I'll definitely get some.

ACS trains are 20 inches long and are essentially a half of a train car- back is flat and comes with necessary hardware to mount to a wall. Each ACS train also comes with pegs and holes so 2 can be combined to form a whole train car. A versatile piece. So many famous artists have customized ACS trains that it would be absurd to even begin to list them. Basically, it's everyone you've ever heard of. Go to the ACS website and click on Shows to see a bunch of custom painted trains. ACS shows have been help in countries around the world. I think the last one was in South Korea. Next one I believe will be Cardboard Spaceship... and I only know that because I'm paying attention to attentive bloggers. Just like you're doing now. How meta.

Anyone wishing to purchase single trains, or small numbers, will have to contact your favorite local retailer to obtain them. SRP is $40 each.

Shops wishing to make wholesale purchases can email orders into sales@bigshottoyworks.com - wholesale pricing begins with orders of 40 trains. The ACS trains come in 10-pc cases and you can buy 10, 20 or 30 of them but you'll be paying a higher price per piece than you would at true wholesale pricing you get when you order 40+ pieces.

Best of all, Bigshot has for the first tme produced crystal-clear Ghost Trains (pictured below) which are ONLY available at wholesale to shops that make 40-train purchases. Shops can buy 20 Ghost Trains for every 40 silver (original) ACS trains they buy.

The shipment of All City Style trains is headed our way... so get your orders in!

If you need more info, click here to view the most recent ACS email. Or sign up for their email list yourself at the bottom of their Contact page.

TRIPTYCHON "NYC" Metal Sculptural Art Piece by VISEone

TRIPTYCHON "NYC" - each panel is 49 cm x 90 cm, mixed media. Our friend VISEone writes:
"In march I launched a new series of works I am currently developing. I exhibited my first sculpture at the URBAN ART GALLERY in Stuttgart, Germany.
 
After years of customizing and producing toys in vinyl I now focus more on artwork made of metal. Here you can check out my first works."

VISEone is moving into metal artworks this year. One of these pieces was a part of the March group show at Urban Art Gallery in Stuttgart. Flyer below:

Custom Freight Train Box Cars by DrilOne

One to never stop working, DrilOne recently put up some HO Scale weathered freight Train Box cars in his store.

Image from DrilOne

These trains have been popping a lot more recently, getting worked and painted by some great artists. A perfect base for artists with a graffiti background, or any artist for that matter. These box cars remind me of sitting at a train track waiting for the miles long Santa Ana train to pass, all while admiring the passing graffiti. DrilOne has 8 of these awesome looking box cars up for sale, selling for $100 plus shipping. Sold blind boxed style, the buyer doesn't know which one he/she will get. As an added bonus, DrilOne will add a name or tag on the other side of the box car, making a truly unique custom.

Image from DrilOne

 From DrilOne's product page:

These are 7" long and 2" high. I did the weathering and graffiti. This includes your name/tag on other side. There is 8 and they will be blindly sold. You wont know which one you get till to receive it.
Please let me know the name you want on the other side. I can do certain pictures too....

Don't wait to long to purchase one of these pieces, it may not last long with only 8 being available.

- Mark-Anthony

Trains of Fame new website and new DIY trains

Trains Of Fame presents its new website and online gallery. The works of graffiti artists such as Comer, Decap, Pone, Pro, Zenoy and DIY blank train cars will all now be available on the net.

After the success of the exhibition in the Oberkampf’s gallery in January, reuniting over 133 graffiti artists from France, Belgium, Switzerland, England, Germany, Spain, Italy and over a thousand people during the opening night, Trains of Fame decides to launch an online gallery and promote the works of five of the most influential french graffiti artists.

Always on the parisian subway model and for this special occasion, Comer, Decap, Pone,
Pro and Zenoy have customised some new trains, all of which can be seen in the online gallery.

Allowing everyone to express his creativity, Trains Of Fame also offers prepainted trains either of one and two colors or refering to the color code of the french trains and parisian subways.
 

The “Metro” model is composed of several types of subways referring to the current one
and those in circulation since its inauguration in 1900.
 

The “RER” model is a perfect copy of the parisian trains, carrying more than 2.7 million
passengers a day.

The “grey train” model reproduces old trains put on traffic in the 60s.

Once again, this gives a great opportunity to express yourself on historical train models!
Those reduced scale train models are specially designed be put on a desk, shelf or fix on a wall.