In 2001, after over a decade of intense train activity in France, Opak and the SDK crew were forced to halt their missions due to severe legal pressure. Twelve years later, the announcement that SNCF was accelerating the demolition of the beloved "petits gris" trains—icons of the northern Paris suburbs—triggered a final call to action. Opak and other writers rallied for "one last effort" to paint them all before they vanished. The result is Painted Graves Volume 1, a 300-page logbook documenting these final missions and tracing the story back to the 90s. Featuring heavyweights like Inxs, Honet, Pum, Fancie, Riot, Milk, Poes, Chill, Acid79, and Skeme, this title stands as a crucial document among Graffiti Books, preserving the history of French train writing.