Wow that cool!! ahahha i got to try it .... and it available in woolies? even better !! how long do you dye it for? in boiling water? doesn't the acetone eat away the plastic?
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Wow that cool!! ahahha i got to try it .... and it available in woolies? even better !! how long do you dye it for? in boiling water? doesn't the acetone eat away the plastic?
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You'll need a deep saucepan, dye, acetone, gloves and a good dust mask. Not the paper ones. I recommend you buy one with the replaceable filters.Originally Posted by lancalot
So you fill a deep saucepan with 3/4 of water
Add 3 cap fulls of dye (you can only dye plastic darker! You can't dye red plastic yellow.)
Add a cap (and I mean the bottle cap BTW) of acetone to the dye
Keep an eye on the hotplate and bring the dye to the boil. Don't let it boil over turn off the hot plate.
Add the plastic to be dyed. Leave in the pan stir often and remove when the desired colour has been reached.
Rinse parts under a running tap of cold water.
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That is really neat SMHF convoy!, who would've thought!
I only use my FOC Jazz as Searchlight in my collection.. though the head needs a bit of imagination hehehe. I'm not skilled enough to do some radical modification and lazy enough to leave doing some minor painting undone to the figure so in liegeverse it's Searchlight. Same with FOC Sideswipe - he is Chase in liegeverse , no mods just imagination heheheh.
Are you going to make his partner Sights as well? There's not a lot of figures you can use for him though..
Wanted AM partner Vanguard, Myclones Dirge, G1 Victory Leo, e-hobby Dark scream ( the black version), e-hobby Magnificus
Parts- AM partner Basher-side guns, G1 Actionmaster Elite Windmill's blades[I][B]
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I've thought about. I was going to try and make sights out of the gun that came with foc jazz. Or get a spare laserbeak from a prod Soundwave
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And now the downside of dyeing plastic - warping and in two cases swelling. So my solution was to take the feet, shoulders and forearms from my foc sideswipe and swap out the parts (don't worry I put another 'swipe on layby at Kmart!)
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.... thanks for the info, i might try it this weekend ....
now have to find a figure to volunteer
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Test it out on some junker first, in a well ventilated area! Happy customising :-)
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