snefroe Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 i saw this craft on brickshelf. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery....y.cgi?i=1534658 it looks nice but it's the canopy that caught my eye. it's not been printed on, it's clean. to my knoledge, lego only produces printed versions, so where does this come from? can you remove these prints and how do you do that? Quote
Christian Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 I think I heard somewhere that you can remove the prints on legobricks with "brasso", maybe they know more over at red bean studio. BTW dont ask me what brasso is, I just read it somewhere on the net :) Quote
ApophisV Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 Yes, It's a brasso'ed JSF canopy, the guys from the Classic Space Forums do that quite often... If I had one of those canopys as spare part I think I would do this also, but since I don't even have a single copy of any set it comes in... |-/ Quote
KimT Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 I think I heard somewhere that you can remove the prints on legobricks with "brasso", maybe they know more over at red bean studio.BTW dont ask me what brasso is, I just read it somewhere on the net :) For polishing brass - [brass-o] KimT Quote
snefroe Posted December 20, 2005 Author Posted December 20, 2005 thanks people. since i have 12 of these, i might try one and see what comes of it Quote
snefroe Posted December 21, 2005 Author Posted December 21, 2005 i tested this polishing technique today and here are the first results: the trans blue piece used to be this printed screen with black lines, can't find the original piece on BL the left trans dark windscreen used to be like the right one i just polished the windscreens with a traditional cupper polisher you can find in your local shop; it took me about half an hour to clean a piece... the smell wasn't too good, tho... Quote
ApophisV Posted December 21, 2005 Posted December 21, 2005 That looks cool! :oD Does it look like "new" or just like "oh, someone removed the printings using chemicals"? Quote
snefroe Posted December 21, 2005 Author Posted December 21, 2005 That looks cool! :oD Does it look like "new" or just like "oh, someone removed the printings using chemicals"? nono... it looks like brand new! if you hold it against the lights, there's no trace left of the print... at first i thought the trans dark turned out to be a bit lighter, but perhaps that's because you not only erase the prints but also dust,... i'm gonna try and polish the old sloped windows of classic space ships... wonder what comes out of that... Quote
Lost Viking Posted December 25, 2005 Posted December 25, 2005 i'm gonna try and polish the old sloped windows of classic space ships... wonder what comes out of that... lol, you better whatch out! Quote
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