Custom chrome lego? your opinion.......

[Living Rave]

I am a shopper for lego on all platforms. To see the custom chromed lego parts to me is awesome!! I will not toy with anything not stamped "LEGO" so this to me is an excellent alteration for unique design options.

If you have used chromed lego please post your pics !! I would love to see them!

[notaromantic]

I had an entire minifig knight silver-chromed a while back.

But to be able to buy from a random select of chrome parts wouldn't interest me as much as having a service available whereat one could send their own build or set of parts to be chromed. That would be cool. Seems one could make more money that way as well - offering chroming as a service, rather than to open a shop chock full of chrome parts - because who really knows what people want in chrome? You may be sitting on a pile of unprofitable chrome parts at the end of the day.

Sometimes chrome can be really offensive on the eyes. "Too much chrome" is a very real thing. That should be a PSA.

The chrome C3PO, though - he was in no way offensive.

Edited February 5, 2015 by notaromantic

[Living Rave]

I have sourced that it is best to do in bulk at any place that chromes. i.e.: auto custom , or powder coaters. If you can find a company thats not extremely large. There are quite a few on eBay for sale if you just wish to dabble with some parts but be prepared to pay about $1 and up per piece. This cappuccino maker I made above has the cost of about $70 in total.

Some parts are pre chromed by lego in odd sets but the rest are custom from eBay. Brick link also has chrome for sale.

Resale is a tough business.There are always desired parts a figures but none are steady and only move when the market says so.

[DuckBricks]

Chrome is awesome and a really cool color for LEGO parts, in my opinion. It's sad LEGO has been cutting down on chrome since the paint tends to flake off.

[paul_delahaye]

having a service available whereat one could send their own build or set of parts to be chromed. That would be cool. Seems one could make more money that way as well - offering chroming as a service, rather than to open a shop chock full of chrome parts - because who really knows what people want in chrome? You may be sitting on a pile of unprofitable chrome parts at the end of the day.

One of the European bricklink sellers was offering this service, I have not sent him the parts yet, but he had no issues, would just charge for the process and return postage.