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Re: Custom Figure Help
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:41:10 GMT
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> From: "Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net>
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> I took the paint off of one of the UFO droid's heads by scraping the blade of
> a
> craft knife (X-acto, to be x-act [hee hee]). If you're unfamiliar with the
> head, it has a big rectangle of paint across the face (in fact, it was the fig
> in this set: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6836).
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> I can't really say that this method had *no* effect on the surface beneath.
> There was some scoring on the surface that was apparent when you got really
> close to the surface- but as I intended to put my own paint design on the
> head,
> this was a plus, because it gave the paint a surface to stick to.
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> Sometime relatively soon I'll finally get around to posting pics of that
> conversion. In the end, the scoring is almost impossible to see... I can see
> a
> slightly different lustre to the plastic, but I suspect it's only because I
> know where to look.
>
> eric
This is where Brasso works wonders. It takes the paint off, yet doesn't harm
the plastic at all. I used a dab of it on a Q-tip to remove some of the
Johnny Thunder face when I created Aves.
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego/spacecraft/payback/
HTH
~Mark
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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