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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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