How can I get rid of a lego pattern...

[Seijitai]

Hello to all ! As the title says, I would like to get rid of the rocks and grass patterns Lego applied on this baseplate :

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=30271pb01

I already know (and use...) the brasso technic on small parts and so, but I simply don't see myself applying this on such a large scale... Karcher technic don't seems to be the good one either... Last time I used a karcher to clean a baseplate, I had to ask my neighbour to retrieve it from his garden, 15 meters aways from it's original location...

So any ideas would help !

[Saint]

Brasso is still the best way then :)

Doesn't take a lot of effort if you put something rubber ( like a old lego tyre) in the cloth ) .

[Seijitai]

Brasso is still the best way then :)

Doesn't take a lot of effort if you put something rubber ( like a old lego tyre) in the cloth ) .

Hey thanks for the tip, didn't knew that one. Too bad I can't have access to 2 or 3 liters of Brasso to put that baseplate in a bath... Any other tips gentlemen ?

EDIT : a friend of mine told me to use brake fluid... He use that to remove paint from Warhammer plactic figurines using that ? Anybody knows that tip and does it work on Lego printed patterns ?

Edited October 8, 2009 by Seijitai

[Saint]

Doesn't that get rid of the plastic aswell ??

Brakefluid is very agressive , and if your not very carefull, your Lego is molten away aswell I guess...

Perhaps he does it with his metal soldiers or what not.. But I wouldn't put that on a baseplate :S

You don't need to use a lot of brasso.. just enough on your cloth to whipe it away, then rub it clean with a clean piece of cloth, apply brasso onto "little bit dirty cloth" clean next piece, clean with new piece of cloth.. and repeat.. reapeat, repeat... you get the picture... . you just need a little bit every time... to much will not do the trick.

Edited October 8, 2009 by Saint

[Seijitai]

The friend told me he used it on his plastic figurines. He told me to avoid brake cleaning fluid as it destroy plastic, but insisted that standard brake fluid might work...

The problem is that here in Belgium, you can't have access to liquid Brasso, there is no bottle of it for sale, just a form of "cloth" dipped in a Brasso solution (to clean spoons and so). That cloth being easily torn apart, I'm sure it won't resist cleaning the studs area (I even torn it apart while brasso-ing a lego head)

I'm gonna give a shot on an old baseplate I have and will post the results

Thanks for the help Saint !