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| (...) yeah, i'm using the blade to literally scrape off the re-printed image. it's the same rules and technique as shaving. be sure to use a very sharp blade, and move it in clean, light strokes. keep the strokes going in one direction. brasso will (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: New Train Sets #10013 and #10014
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| (...) Think so too... (...) Yes, but i wish they were red & white... (...) Thats what i was thinking too... I'll have to get back into LEGO 6/8 wide trains... Those white quarter circle panels make me happy, not more brasso to get white ones for a (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Falling to the dark side
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| It all started innocently enough, I thought that I could just alter some minifig faces to improve them, or differentiate them, by scraping off some of the factory paint with a craft knife. I built a mini-me, removing the microphone from a Divers (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: A new pirate ship.
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| (...) A two gun deck pirate ship? Ah....a Hollywood vessel! That's just up the freeway from the lab here in Pasadena. :-) (...) Honestly, you can take the ninja banners and Brasso off the designs. You might want to check for inverse slopes and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Very cool ship
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| One very cool thing is that you can tell how well the dome pieces retain their luster after the paint was removed. Look at this pic: (URL) reflection of the rear gun is very sharp. Brasso anyone? Dave Jon Palmer <jpalmer@oklahoma.net> wrote in (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Creator scourge strikes again!
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| (...) You don't have dogheaded monsters in your castle set-ups Frank? Shame on you!! It looks like Creator heads have the same connection as Belville, Technic and Fabuland (and Scala?): see (URL) With a bit of Brasso/craftknife work on the torsos (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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| I like the use of the arch pieces on the bottom, the choice of colors, and the overall shape is kick-arse. What I do not like is the printing on the 12x3 wedges, it detracts form the overall smoothness of the ship -- I think a little brasso there (...) (20 years ago, 30-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Link to Sandcrawler pic?
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| (...) every (...) Agreed. TLC *has* to make Jawas at a smaller size than the standard figs. I've made some Jawas using the Obi-Wan hood & cape, an all-black head piece with yellow paint for eyes, on a brown torso (I removed the paint w/brasso from (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Droid Escape parts useful for Castle
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| (...) The Poolside Paradise has the 6-radius white plates like the grey ones I used at the top level, but not the 4-radius - I think they're new, and not yet appearing in white. (Please correct me if you've seen them!) I'll take Brasso to my white (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 7143 review
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| (...) Um, sure. I agree the landing gear is flimsy. The green in the back of the set is ugly. The front nose seems too flat. The printing on the large curved slopes and the 2x4 45 slopes makes them pretty much useless (unless your motivated enough (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| It comes in a big dark blue can and looks a big beige cotton ball. You tear off a piece and go to work with that. It takes about as much elbow grease but it doesn't have the very fine grit that is in Brasso. I find it leaves the pieces even shinier (...) (21 years ago, 18-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Argent Supra
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| That is a whole lot of lime there Paul! What a cool looking ship. I especially like the integration of the Technic panels and the 2x4 wedge plates that make up the front of the engines. If I had one ever so slight negative comment, it would be to (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I have a pair of yellow doors with the red stripe on the bottom that I picked up somewhere and yes they are a yellow door, but the red on the bottom is printed on (it's not a sticker.) However I'm sure it would easily come off with Brasso. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I assume you mean the designs painted on their torsos, legs, heads, hats, etc. The minifigs are molded out of solid plastic, so if you mean remove the "base color" of the minifigs, it can't be done. However, if you're talking about the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: The Results of...
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| (...) Thanks for the update...glad to hear it went well = ) Interesting test...I found a few parts that are prime candidates... I think I am going to wait til I have a couple dozen or more elements in front of me, before I break ot the Brasso. The (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ny.syr)
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| | Re: UFO - Printed or Stickers?
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| (...) I finally tried this some time ago; it takes care and patience, but it works surprisingly well. Even on transparent elements the effect was very nice, leaving a non-clouded surface with none of that ugly UFO printing. Use caution on textured (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: shop@home goes up and upp and uppp!
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| (...) I got one just before Christmas at the old price with the extra horse - I meant I wondered if the price rise coincided with a 'second run' of the set with the problem corrected. (Not that I mind extra horses. NB: It takes alot of brasso and (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Body Armor
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| (...) Ahhhh, got a visored-helm here with me (shopping spree with the stuff still in the car). Kind of a hulking look, but that's okay. I'm good with an X-acto blade, I'll give that a try when I get home. Some good suggestions. Thanks. I had a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.castle)
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