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Re: More custom castle helms
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:27:39 GMT
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Have you tried the Tamiya or Gunze Sangyo (sp?) lines of water-based
acrylics? They are matched to the FS color scale, and are pretty faithful
in their results. I'm not sure where you can get one, but if you can come
up with a FS color chip set, you can probably match up the dark grey and
light grey pretty closely. Then it's just a matter of finding the closest
match in a hobby paint and lightening or darkening it.
A good-quality hobby shop that caters to aircraft modelers (static, not R/C)
would probably be able to help you match those colors. Of course, you're
liable to get sucked into a whole new hobby :)
James Wilson
In lugnet.castle, Kyle Peterson writes:
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> Well, the real trick is getting to match the paint color to the LEGO dark
> gray. I've successfully done this *once*. I use water-based acrylic paints
> only and the final color changes once its dry and depending on how various
> light shines on it. Black is easy, White is easy, Silver is the easiest. I
> put two coats of silver on the helmets because I believe it makes a nice
> undercoat for whatever color it eventually gets painted. Keep in mind that
> Silver helmets actually look good on Black Falcon and DragonMaster figures
> which have silver in their torso decor.
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> As a minifig customizer, the biggest problem I come up with is mixing paints
> to reflect the right color. I can get pretty darn close, however; the paint
> itself changes depending on a number of variables.
> For Dark gray it takes a combination of black, white, brown, and yellow to
> achieve the proper color. I'm wondering if anyone is daring enough to come
> up with a formula for LEGO colors? (ie. two parts black, to three parts
> white, to one part brown...etc).
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> -K
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| (...) I don't know about the silver paint, -- Richard I think they would all look a little more "LEGO-esgue" if they were painted in Dark Grey and/or black instead of metallic silver -- Eric (...) Well, the real trick is getting to match the paint (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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