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| | | Author: | lencor1208  | | Posted: | Oct 9, 2023 01:41 | | Subject: | Painting Legos | | Viewed: | 125 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| I'm making an MOC John Deere tractor, but a lot of the pieces I want to use
don't come in green. My next Idea was to paint the bricks green, anyone paint
bricks and have a good outcome?, and what was your process?
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 9, 2023 03:24 | | Subject: | Re: Painting Legos | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| In My Own Creation, lencor1208 writes:
| | I'm making an MOC John Deere tractor, but a lot of the pieces I want to use
don't come in green. My next Idea was to paint the bricks green, anyone paint
bricks and have a good outcome?, and what was your process?
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For bricks, no. They will rub together and the paint will scrape. For minifigure
accessories where parts don't touch as much, it is not so bad.
If the parts don't exist, use another colour or redesign to use existing
parts.
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| | | | | Author: | molten.brick | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2023 10:10 | | Subject: | Re: Painting Legos | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| Technic would be your best bet.
In My Own Creation, lencor1208 writes:
| | I'm making an MOC John Deere tractor, but a lot of the pieces I want to use
don't come in green. My next Idea was to paint the bricks green, anyone paint
bricks and have a good outcome?, and what was your process?
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| | | | | Author: | molten.brick | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2023 10:32 | | Subject: | Re: Painting Legos | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| Alternatively....
If you're going to paint - try and only paint the visible/exposed areas,
all surfaces need to be clean and scoured, use an airbrush at low pressure with
wide flare, first use a weak coat of etch primer, when dry (which can take twenty
four hours - read the label on the paint), scour again, if you cut through the
primer, respray another weak layer of primer, scour, use the same method with
an acrylic based paint to colour them for desired coverage.
Etch primer could potentially dissolve the parts - I don't really know...
In My Own Creation, lencor1208 writes:
| | I'm making an MOC John Deere tractor, but a lot of the pieces I want to use
don't come in green. My next Idea was to paint the bricks green, anyone paint
bricks and have a good outcome?, and what was your process?
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| | | | | Author: | Carissamiss | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2023 14:52 | | Subject: | Re: Painting Legos | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| In My Own Creation, lencor1208 writes:
| | I'm making an MOC John Deere tractor, but a lot of the pieces I want to use
don't come in green. My next Idea was to paint the bricks green, anyone paint
bricks and have a good outcome?, and what was your process?
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Have you tried using a combination of tiles and technic? We’re huge John Deere
fans here (farmers) and my 12 year old son has built a lot of equipment. When
he was younger I would get green stickers and “decal” the bricks, but the tiles
make a cleaner/prettier build. He attaches the tiles either with technic and
plates, or SNOT bricks.
Here’s a photo of the combine MOC he’s working on to give you an idea of what
I mean.
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