Green Hood

dariofol · Post by **dariofol** » Mon May 31, 2004 8:20 am

i'm happy to show you my green hood....

I'm a lego purist but this green hood are perfectly like Lego plastic...

this is a long procedure that permitted to change the brown in green with several coat of a special color that appear like plastic at the end, this is very resistant and i love my forest men and woman with them color put on head

this is the link....
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=84583
the picture seem much dark but it's depend from the monitor i think bacasue on different computer i see this one better

Dario

Troy T. Moore · Post by **Troy T. Moore** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:53 am

Looks very good! What sort of paint did you use to get these results?

Red Bean · Post by **Red Bean** » Mon May 31, 2004 11:01 am

Hi dariofol,

Nicely done! The color is really like the natural lego color, if you can share this secret with us, I might be tempted to re-paint every single new bluish-grey bricks so they look like the old grey again.

I also like the forestly setting where you put the figs in. Do you have any pictures that show the complete structure?

R. B.
visit my website: www.redbeanstudio.net

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Mon May 31, 2004 1:52 pm

I saw these yesterday on Brickshelf and I was amazed. You do excellent work, I commend you. Now that the very sincere gushing is done...

... If you could divulge the manufacturer/brand of the paint used and the color used, it would be greatly appretiated. I have a surplus of assorted hoods and would love to make a few customs, as I am sure many of us would. Does the manufacturer make Red as well? Please let us know.

Will

TwoTonic Knight · Post by **TwoTonic Knight** » Mon May 31, 2004 3:23 pm

It certainly seems to highlight properly, I really can't tell that they aren't straight Lego production pieces. Nicely done! Please give us a how-to (and in the Customs area, not MOC).

Post by **Robin Hood** » Mon May 31, 2004 5:14 pm

Can't say, I went to the link, but it said "folder not yet public."

doctorsparkles · Post by **doctorsparkles** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 12:06 am

I saw the green hoods on Brickshelf and had no idea that they were repainted. In fact, I wondered which set had come with green hoods, and I went on a mad search on Bricklink for them. Nice work.

porschecm2 · Post by **porschecm2** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:51 am

That is amazing. Does it rub off easily with use? Say, if you were to put it on a weapon, could a minifig hold it with no danger of the paint coming off? And I too, like everyone else, am extremely curious what paint and techniques you used to accomplish this.

Cm2

Post by **Formendacil** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:01 am

Amazing! Like the others have said, that looks like legit lego green! I'm like the forester hood over the jedi one, but both look awesome!

dariofol · Post by **dariofol** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:48 am

thanks, thanks many tanks at all

i search to put some response for you...
The paint is a Nitro color for Car (Automotive paint), i use a Tamiya white coat to prepare the surface and next i put the green with my aerograph...
The color are make with mixture of fondamental color and i pic the green over a catalog RAL6029 (international code)
Next i use several abrasive paper very light (n° 3600 ---> n°8000) to exact plastic brightness (Micromesh 3M ever from carriage maker shop )

wlister wrote: Does the manufacturer make Red as well?

Yes all color are possible because the paint shop make the color fron the fondamental color

porschecm2 wrote: Say, if you were to put it on a weapon, could a minifig hold it with no danger of the paint coming off?

I have fear that the grip of the weapon might some little danger ....
I can try to spraying a transparent
color much resistent ... i tell you .

Red Bean wrote: I also like the forestly setting where you put the figs in. Do you have any pictures that show the complete structure?

This is like 6077 set
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?S=6077-2
i make with brick from Black falcons fortress and several parts from Bricklink

I hope that my imperfect english are understand

P.S.:
Yesterday i put the pics much brightness on Brishelf

Dario

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Glencaer · Post by **Glencaer** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:51 pm

These look spectacular! Certainly had me fooled!

You really must give us a greater detailed How-To (and you may consider writing an article for the CC main site. If you do, I can help with editing it into better english).

However, this really does belong in the Customs forum.

-Lenny

dariofol · Post by **dariofol** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:19 pm

Glencaer wrote:These look spectacular! Certainly had me fooled!

You really must give us a greater detailed How-To (and you may consider writing an article for the CC main site. If you do, I can help with editing it into better english).

However, this really does belong in the Customs forum.

-Lenny

I wonder if you want to do it

TwoTonic Knight · Post by **TwoTonic Knight** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:25 pm

dariofol wrote:thanks, thanks many tanks at all
i search to put some response for you...
The paint is a Nitro color for Car (Automotive paint), i use a Tamiya white coat to prepare the surface and next i put the green with my aerograph...
The color are make with mixture of fondamental color and i pic the green over a catalog RAL6029 (international code)
Next i use several abrasive paper very light (n° 3600 ---> n°8000) to exact plastic brightness (Micromesh 3M ever from carriage maker shop )

For those that find "aerograph" cryptic, that's a brand of airbrush. Now to figure out where I hid my Iwata HPC and compressor...

Post by **Robin Hood** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:05 pm

Now that I can see it, great job!!!! It looks so real.

Chancellor Erik · Post by **Chancellor Erik** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:19 pm

Very cool, I plan to use that same technique in gray to paint the KK2 armor old light gray and all of my new gray bricks light gray too. It's a little labor intensive, but I'd give anything not to buy 10,000 new gray bricks just to get one lousy wall section to match in color.