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Re: Silkscreening parts
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lugnet.parts.mod
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:50:57 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.mod, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> In lugnet.parts.mod, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > Interesting ides, but I wonder about the durability. Decals also are not as
> > durable in that they can flake off (my Steve Barile designed custom Chessie
> > locomotive is starting to lose some of its Chessie System markings due to
> > flaking from careless handling) unless you protect them somehow.
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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 in the scale model world but not as desirable in the reusable LEGO world.
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 or two of Testors(tm) DullKote(tm) to protect it.
But I'm not at all keen on spraypainting my bricks! Even with clear non shiny
finish.
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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
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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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