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Re: LIC SW info
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 6 Jan 1999 13:48:39 GMT
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:45:58 GMT, "Scott Symer" <ssymer@teleport.com>
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> In article <36922364.8393291@lugnet.com>, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve
> Bliss) wrote:
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> > > snip Todd then Scott talking about the funky painting on R2's head<<
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> > Maybe it's an artifact of the screen-printing process. From your
> > description (I haven't look at the catalog scans lately), it sounds like
> > TLG decorated R2's head by holding the 'head' sideways and applying the
> > design:
> > __
> > Screen / |
> > Print -> | |
> > Device \__|
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> > Which would mean they couldn't do the sides in the same pass.
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> > Also, the screen-print process seems to not allow them to coordinate two
> > different prints on same part, so they couldn't make a second print from
> > a different orientation to complete the edges.
> >
> > But this is all just a guess.
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> It sounds like a good guess to me. Given the limitations you point out
> though, I would have probably chosen to get at least the front of the head
> right, and maybe made the part in gray rather than white to make up for the
> back being blank & to be more like the 'real' thing.
Too bad I'm wrong. Well, I *hope* I'm wrong. They have to be able to
get R2's face on straight! The head piece has cutouts in the bottom for
studs, so it can't rotate. That means if they can't screen print in the
correct location, R2 will be looking permanently to one side or the
other! So they'd *better* be able to control how the piece is oriented
before screen printing. Which (in my mind) means they could build a
custom double-screen-printer, which would finish the edges in a second
pass. Oh, well.
Steve
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| (...) the (...) I just realized the answer to this dilemma is staring me in the face. On top of my computer sits sets no 6709, an Indian on a horse with a headdress(1) The headdress is quite a complicated shape (lots of curvy feathers) but it has (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) It sounds like a good guess to me. Given the limitations you point out though, I would have probably chosen to get at least the front of the head right, and maybe made the part in gray rather than white to make up for the back being blank & to (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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