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(...) given (...) presume (...) design (...) You guys could always make jigs and templates, then use airbrushes to paint the desired decal colors. A different part of a design could be made for each color. When you spray each color/template, then (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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(...) Silk-screening is a process that will directly print a given design onto a given object (passing ink/dye/paint through a screen/number of screens). I presume Mike means printing directly on the torso after removing any previous design first. I (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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(...) Indeed. The approach I used was to apply SolvaSet(tm) (A Walthers product IIRC, or maybe Microscale) to get the decal to conform to the shape of the model (fitting over rivets and the like) and then after it dried and was in good shape, a coat (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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(...) As a former scale model fan, I know that there a quite a few products out there for durably securing a decal to your model. The problem is that these solutions are semi-permanent and the piece(s) will alway have that decal on it. This is great (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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(...) Do you mean decals or stickers? I believe decals are printed on decal paper and you use water to float them off their backing and transfer them while wet, while stickers are printed on dry adhesive backed paper. Tangentially, there is a (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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Hey nice, somebody made a new forum just in time for my question. Has anybody tried silkscreening onto Lego parts? I've been doing a lot of custom decals lately, running label paper through my inkjet, but I can't help but wonder if silkscreening (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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(...) Visit the BrickLink price guide for this part in Brown: (URL) the shop that appeals to your price/quantity needs. If you want to see the sets that these come in visit the where used page: (URL) down to the color. Click on the set link and (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) Well, Peeron tells you what sets it comes in. You can go to the lugnet guide ((URL) and see what those sets retail for, and potentially stores that may currently have it in stock. Or you go to bricklink ((URL) and look it up there. It seems (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts)
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I'm in need of a quantity of Technic Pin Joiner Rounds (part 75535). I know I could buy these directly from the stores associated with peeron.com, but as a newbie, I'm wondering if there is a better way. What I'd really rather do is buy a number of (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) Thanks, I'll be right over. Soon as we're done with BrickFest, I can shred the MOCs that've used up all my latest "new parts" and put 'em on brickshelf with appropriate gory descriptions of how they got made. Always gives me shivers up and (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) Oh. You mean a comment like that can't be accompanied by a picture of the wistfully dreamed of part ..... ;) JB (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) Here's a neat little trick someone taught me about using the thumbnails automatically generated by Brickshelf. Add /thumb/image.jpg(und...)thumb.jpg and you will link to the thumb instead of the full image. So: (URL) Better yet, make the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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(...) "2 - Did you think to yourself “AND Rob Hendrix...“?" Your answer juxtaposed with Larry's question still don't make the slightest ounce of sense. :-) -->Bruce<-- p.s. you two are the guys screwing up my correctly directed post. :-) p.p.s. See! (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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"John Barnes" <barnes@sensors.com> wrote in message news:I1wAnD.1HsF@lugnet.com... (...) I would imagine that you are going to fall more in the parts.custom and parts.mod category. Come on over, there's plenty of room!! Leave these purists to sit (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) That'd be me. Lugnet member #377, owner of (URL) modder of the brick, curator of this particular newsgroup, and all around Dremel wielding weirdo. Keep up the great modding work, and post it here! Be sure you set your FUT's right though! -Rob (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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(...) It suddenly dawned on me that I couldn't recall that I had ever seen a lugnet.parts.mod forum so I ambled back here to see that it is in fact new. X-Acto® hobby knife? No. Dremel® rotary tool? No. Victorinox® Swiss Army™ Knife! I always have (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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(...) Not here they'd better not be. You're thinking of parts.MOD.... :-) Questions suitable for here would be along the lines of "if LEGO could make just one new part next year, what would you choose?" (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts)
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They've made a special bat channel just for us! Hope the faint of heart purists don't browse these threads too often. There are all sorts of dastardly doings that are gonna get posted here. Mwuaahaaahaahaahaa (22 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts)
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(...) Do you mind if I ask a question(1) about these fine mods rather than comment directly? I was wondering how you shaped these? Xacto® knife or equivalent? Dremel® cutoff tool or equivalent? Something else? Would you be willing to share that (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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(...) And proud of it, man. (...) What!?! Of course I'm bad for doing it. I am good at doing it however. (...) It had to do with axe grinding, and not specifically Lego, though Lego was in fact the medium. And how the FUT went entirely depended on (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod, FTX)
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