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| Hi Kevin (...) Thanks! (...) I'm not surprised you got similar results - PVA adhesive uses the same carrier medium as acrylic medium, with various gunk added to increase adhesion. For what it's worth, I recommend acrylic medium over PVA, because (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| Hi Janey! (...) You're welcome. I think of it as casting bread upon the waters. :) (...) There's a multi-page "Creating Custom Elements" essay to come that's just waiting on a couple of images being uploaded. It covers a lot of my "hard material" (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Creating custom fabric elements for Lego minifigures
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| (...) Snipped the "Awesome Guide to Clothing your Figs" Nicely written Norbert, and thanks for all the tips. Please keep us informed in other tricks of the trades you have learned through your process of fig modifications. Some of us (read:me) live (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Creating custom fabric elements for Lego minifigures
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| Norbert Black wrote in message ... (...) Lots of really cool information! Something to add: when I've made fabric pieces, instead of acrylic medium I used diluted PVA adhesive (white glue) and wetted the fabric completely in it. After it was dry, I (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| Creating custom fabric elements for Lego minifigures ===...=== Norbert Black, February 2005 For my various custom minifigures, I've needed to make a variety of fabric elements. Lego produces capes in several colours, but what if you want a shade not (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, FTX) !!
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| (...) Ken, nice work. Let us know how well this operates. I did some experimenting along these lines last summer, but I didn't think of cutting and bending tabs on the ATLAS track connectors, very cleaver. I was going to grind flange off the base of (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| (...) Incidentally, if anybody is interested in trying this out on the cheap, there is a slightly used Gocco printer up for sale on eBay right now: (URL). The only other source I've found for this item is dickblick.com, where (new) it costs about (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| (...) So, how did it go? Did you find a way to make this gadget work on LEGO parts? If so, what about odd-shaped parts like minifig torsos or heads? I'm pretty interested in this approach too, as it sounds like it should produce a much (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.mod)
| | | | | making parts Re: Preview ALCO RS-1 A. T. & S. F.
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| (...) snipped (...) James beutiful work as always. While we dream, a 4 wide version would be nice as well, not to mention a bulk pack! I've toyed with the idea of molding/casting repro parts. This may be the right part to try it with. The best resin (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.parts, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
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| (...) In 1997 I sent TLC a sketch of some parts I wanted them to make, including 12 and 20 tooth cogs. Lo and behold the cogs appeared in the Droid Developer Kit in 1999! I had decided that 12:20 would mesh in the same holes as 16:16 and 8:24 for (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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