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Re: KK2 minifig armour decal
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lugnet.loc.au
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Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:43:56 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, James Paraha wrote:
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Got to work with a cloth and some Brasso. It seems the metallic element in the
design makes it harder to remove than others I have tried to remove, really
pretty dificult. After about 15 mins of rubbing I had most of it off when the
armour literally crumbled in my hands! It came apart into about half a dozen
pieces.
Suffice to say I was less than happy but thought it was probably due to
excessive pressure, etc on my part.
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I don’t think that it was due to that, or due to some change in the plastic in
more recent Lego sets. I think it’s due to the fact that some pieces (especially
minifig neckgear) have always been made from a slightly different, more flexible
pastic that could well be more susceptible to the solvent used in Brasso and
similar compounds.
I brought this up again because I just noticed that the new minifig Hockey sets
have a new body armour element, but it’s probably printed (in the same
presumably irremovable way). Which sucks, because although I could get by with
some of my Space Marines to be playing for the NHL, I wouldn’t want all of
them to... :-(
Cheers,
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 | | KK2 minifig armour decal
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| Went and bought 2 - 8777 Vladek Encounter sets last night with the intention of removing the decal on a Vladek armour in order to get a blank black armour. Got to work with a cloth and some Brasso. It seems the metallic element in the design makes (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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