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Re: Silkscreening parts
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lugnet.parts.mod
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Fri, 6 Aug 2004 17:16:16 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.mod, Mike Rayhawk wrote:
> Jigs shouldn't be too tough, a couple scraps of sculpy should do the job. I'll
> have to bust out my old airbrush and see what I can work out - I'm not sure how
> easy it'll be to cut friskets at a small enough scale for torso and head
> designs.
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 multi-colored design, and I thought the photo-etch process (used by
scale modelers to make very fine detail) could be used to make a series of masks
in the same way.
James Wilson
Dallas, TX
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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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