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Re: LIC SW info
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 6 Jan 1999 21:52:08 GMT
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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.
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> 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.
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 printing that starts on one side and wraps, up over the
top and down the other. In fact I also notice that the horse, all the
horses in fact have printing on both sides. Bugger, there's another. a
minifig with printing on both sides of the body. so It's possible.
Cheers
Tim
(1) the Indian has the headdress, not the horse.
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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