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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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| | Re: Silver Stickers
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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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| | Re: Painting Questions
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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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| | Re: Painting Questions
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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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| | Painting Questions
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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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| | Re: Silver Stickers
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(...) During the time I worked as a Copier Tech, 7 years, I learned toner is basically a plastic substance, with other magnetic material conbined. they use about 470 degrees (varies depending on MFG) to fuse the toner to the paper. So the principle (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Silver Stickers
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(...) There's a process which (I believe) uses heat to transfer foil to toner. After making copies at Kinko's onto some trans sticker sheets you may yourself be able to apply some silver foil. I've never tried it, but this place has been selling (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Silver Stickers
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I'm planning on using stickers to make some classic Castle "knight" minifigs (belt, silver vest), since for some reason TLC never made them in white or yellow. . .I assume designing the stickers should be easy---scan 'em in and touch 'em up the GIMP (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Do we have a name for the new figs?
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(...) How about Wirefigs? They're kinda wiry and umm... stuff. -- I think it'd be funny if someone egged Martha Stewart's house. (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.year.2001)
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| | Re: Painting Minifigs
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(...) Yup -- people have done it, and there have been some totally amazing things! Check this out, for example: (URL) made a Bill Gates Borg minifig yet? --Todd (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Do we have a name for the new figs?
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I suggest "House-rocking cool creatures" ^_^ --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.year.2001)
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| | Best kind of paint?
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What is anybody's opinion of the best kind of paint/ way to paint a minifig? (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Tommy Gun (.45 Thompson SMG)
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(...) Argh! Let him be cast out! 'cos I always thought that the point of Lego was to join it together by the studs... I've done a minifig Tommy-Gun too. Mine is a black classic space hand-held antenna/scanner/gun/whatever they were (OK, so the real (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: BYFMTWW: Bring Your Favorite Minifig To Work Week
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(...) Howdy Folks. Sorry to bring up some critisism here but i have to say that i think Todd doesnt handle this correct. How could it happen that a celebration of _that_ importance could pass by without me recognizing it? Every day in office i took (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Re: Need help with new member's Sig-Fig
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(...) but didn't get any closer than that... my builidng/photographing area is still a destruction zone. (taking apart my big castle) James (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.castle.org.cw, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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