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Re: What would you think of a crusader torso being available?
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Date: 
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 03:51:56 GMT
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Doyle <doylenelson@home.com> wrote:
Basically the problem is it is plastic and they have to make a mold to hold
the torso's then they have to transfer the image you want on the plastic using
a special type of paint or ink that will stay on the plastic, much like
MotherBoards. Its not a cheap process, might be able to go done to $4 but
still, plastic is much different than cloth. They make 1000 torsos a sheet so
thats a reminder of what type of work it takes to make sure all 1000 stay
still. Trust me I felt the same way, but when you think about allot of people
paying $5 for falcon torso's or rarer think of the fact that there would only
be 1000 torso's in the world. and there is no copyright problem due to lego
never making a crusader emblem of course the other option would be stickers
trasparent with the crosses and that would be allot cheaper!

Wow.

Well, I wish you well in this.  I can't really bring myself to spend
that much for them, but I bet some could.

Now stickers, I think I could go for those.  Wonder what it would
take to have custom sticker sheets produced?  Having to cut stickers
to size would be too much trouble on a large scale - do you think
someone could find a place that would be able to take measurements
and produce 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of sticker paper with torso-sized
stickers/labels in them?  That would be really cool!

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(...) The job is completely custom, so it would be a hassle, but depending upon how many colors were printed I think even $4 is high for a single color. Less than $2. (...) Better yet-- decals. One can buy blank sheets from Micro-Scale and print (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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Basically the problem is it is plastic and they have to make a mold to hold the torso's then they have to transfer the image you want on the plastic using a special type of paint or ink that will stay on the plastic, much like MotherBoards. Its not (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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