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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 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Larry Pieniazek
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Orion Pobursky
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Larry Pieniazek
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) For those interested in painting bricks, DullCote does a pretty good job of protecting most paints, though I'd suggest avoiding water-based craft paints in favor of actual model paints. I once used some Createx airbrush paint to apply silver (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —James Wilson
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| | | | | | | (...) The scale modeling crowd also uses Future floor polish as a gloss-coat. I'm not sure if it would stand up to the rigors of playing with the sprayed part, though. Check rec.models.scale for references to Future for theories on how to airbrush. (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | | Permanent Brick "printing" —Tommy Armstrong
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| | | | | | My name is Tommy Armstrong and and with my son Peyton,we actually engrave letters and graphics onto bricks (we started the brick namebadges at BrickFest), minifig torsos, etc. Although it has limitations as regards to multiple colors, it does have (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Bruce Schlickbernd
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Rob Hendrix
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) Mike was talking about a $30 mini-silk-screening machine (what make/model Mike?). I shudder to think what my compressor and double-action air brush would cost today -->Bruce<-- (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Mike Rayhawk
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| | | | | | | (...) That's right, I'm trying to think of ways to duplicate the look of actual Lego printing as closely as possible, and the paper labels are just too jarring - even with photoshop-printed paper labels we have to do a bunch of post-printing work to (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —James Wilson
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| | | | | | | | (...) I've often wondered (never got beyond that) whether one could use photo-etching to create masks/templates for airbrushing Lego elements. The folks that do face-painting at fairs and amusement parks use re-usable masks to quickly airbrush a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Mike Rayhawk
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| | | | | | (...) I heard back from my friend Lee in email today: In mike's.email.inbox, Lee wrote: (...) Apparently my memory of it costing $30 was from the art school resale boards. I found the product website here: (URL) be a month or so before I have time (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Joe Strout
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Joe Strout
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Hi Bruce... I was focused on the second sentence of those I left. In the second sentence he said "custom decals, running label paper" which is what confused me in his usage. Decals go on decal paper not sticker paper. Stickers go on label (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) Imprinted? Take that to OT, mister. And be careful handling those screens--you might strain yourself. Dave! (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) Ah, I see. Terminology is sloppy - I use glossy photo paper myself, and Elmer's Washable Glue Stick (and colored pencils so that the edges aren't glaringly white). So I don't use decal, film, or glue-backed paper in actuality, though I call (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | | | | | Re: Silkscreening parts —Mike Rayhawk
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| | | | (...) Whoa! I forgot what kind of technical crowd I was talking to. By 'custom decals' I meant 'faked element prints' (so, actually even less correct than if I had meant 'stickers'). By 'label paper' I actually did mean stickers though. I haven't (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.mod)
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