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As a result of my own small FOTW, I've suddenly come up with the need to know about fixing armless minifigs. I got a goodly pile of 1970s-80s era figs in multiple themes from a thrift shop, but some of them are armless and/or handless. I was more (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Silver Stickers
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(...) Have any of the painters tried gold or siver leaf on LEGO's? The key is if the base paint used to adhere the leaf will stick to ABS. The base used on wood is red but I can't remember what is is called. Imitation gold or silver (or even copper) (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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There probablly are places that will print metalic leaf for you. I've even seen printers (I don't remember if it was laser or Bubble jet) that printed metalic gold. they probablly also have ones that print metalic silver but those are alot shinier (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Painting Questions
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(...) I as thinking of doing something similar, making a skull visor for a knight. since don't want to mass produce them I haven't decieded wheather I will use a sand mold method to form a new plastic piece or use a gold astronaut's visor and use (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Painting Questions
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(...) Even TLC does it- see the 'figs in the Tine Milk Truck set and the Velux set. The only thing that worries me about the helmet is the curve- I've never really seen a sticker that looked sharp applied to a curved surface. Well, a surface curved (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Painting Questions
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(...) I have used Brasso with a Q-Tip and it's worked just fine. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I totally forgot about producing stickers! That seems like the best solution for the body especially if I want tight tolerances. I could probably handle the helmet similarly with some careful application. Eric, just so you know, I'm making (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I used a knife to scrape the paint off of a UFO droid head, but that may not work for all paint types and processes that LEGO uses. Some people use brake fluid or Brasso (I've seen other liquids mentioned, but can't remember them offhand) to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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I was wondering how everyone has been removing paint from the minifgs. Yesterday I took my first stab at it not realizing how well the original paint is adhered to the bodies. I tried useing isopropyl alcohol which works for my other toys but didn't (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Silver Stickers
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If nothing at all works, try aluminum foil tape. -- Chef ICQ:84584424 AIM: Jedi101673 (URL) Morgan <trees@utk.edu> wrote in message news:G7HquI.7ty@lugnet.com... (...) minifigs (...) or (...) and (...) wondering about (...) print a (...) After (...) (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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