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Shiny Decal Help

Hi.

I need help. I need to know how to make specific places on a decal shiney/metallic, like this guy:

http://minifigcustoms.com/customs/6187

As you can see, the trimming for his clothes and the band around his head are both gold colored and have a shiny and metallic touch, that is what I wan't to know how to do. Thanks for the info in advance.

Thanks guys. Maybe next time

by RiBrick - 11/16/2008 - 6:55am
Thanks guys. Maybe next time I wan't to ask A question, I'll make sure its not explained in any of the how-to articles! Thanks again.

So happens I bought an

by Ddog - 11/15/2008 - 7:59pm

So happens I bought an certain unnecesarily expensive printer. <-- Very similar to Kaminoan's one.

I'll be able to print decals in the future, but I experienced some trouble setting it up. So it might take a short while to get fixed. Contact me after Christmas ; ).

Anyway if your going to want somebody to print out something for you with an ALPS printer, you'd need to use the right colours. See here: http://www.minifigcustoms.com/node/5393

There is also a Colour code for white. The CMYK for gold is C: 12 M: 37 Y: 100 K: 0

The value can be used for either a foil or metallic. I own both colours, and you can use both, but you will need another layer.

You need to have

by Nermal88 - 11/15/2008 - 7:29pm
You need to have an unnecessarily expensive laser printer that cost as much as college tuition, for starters. After that, you need to buy some powdered inks, which is the way people print colours like white and chrome.  Kaminoan has a printer that can do this, you might want to talk to him in the future, as he will print other people's work.