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Re: Custom Figure Help
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Date: 
Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:41:10 GMT
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From: "Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net>

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).

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.

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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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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