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Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego
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Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:19:08 GMT
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In lugnet.reviews, Scott Lyttle wrote:
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One issue may be the application of orange paint on a different material. We
all know LEGO elements are made of ABS. However, windows are not made of
ABS, they are made of polycarbonate(PC).
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Is it? I knew it couldn’t possibly be ABS (due to the fact that natural ABS has
a translucent milky-beige color, and clear ABS is supposed to be EXPENSIVE),
but I’d always thought it was acrylic due to how easily the transparent parts
used to crack when I was a kid (particularly the 1x1 round plates of which I
have had dozens split open at the base). Maybe it’s something that changed over
the years, though.
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As PC and ABS are different materials, application of color may have
discrepancies (kinda like when you apply paint over a white primer, it’s got
a different look when you apply it over a darker color primer.
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It’s probably a combination of issues:
1. The parts are transparent, so unless they get a fully-opaque undercoat,
colors will be muted. If you recall getting character glasses from fast food
restaurants back when the practice was still common, the inside of every glass
showed white because of the undercoat that was used to help make the brighter
colors pop.
2. The color of the part will affect it as well, like how the old blue computers
were always less vibrantly decorated than their white counterparts, and the
light-grey versions were somewhere in between. Darker colors will cause the
deco to be more muted, just as transparent shades will. Mismatched shades (red
paint on green, blue paint on orange, etc) will have a similar effect because
they don’t reflect the same wavelengths of light.
3. We’re assuming that they actually picked paint colors that were good
matches for the part colors, at least under the circumstances as seen during the
selection process. They could very well have just been the closest available
colors, and if they weren’t a perfect match, they were as good as they were
going to get without having an expensive custom-tinted color mixed up. You can
see the same result with the new corpulantly fleshie minifigs. Satipo from the
Temple Escape set has a patch of bare skin on his torso that looks a much better
match to the NBA fleshtone than the new licensed IP color. It makes him look
like he’s wearing another shirt under his wifebeater.
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