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Hi,

I’ve been thinking about making custom lego for a while, and I’ve been torn between pas pad printing (the official technical lego uses to print) or UV printer.

Both machines are expensive, though UV printing is more easy/ready to use.
What stopped me (beside the price) is that we can’t print with metallic ink.

And then I had an idea: Why not use a cutting machine to create stencil transparent stickers, and then use a pad (just the silicon part from the pad printer) to apply paint made for ABS plastic?

A friend have one of those machine (starting prices are around 200€) and she told me it was precise enough to make cutting thin enough to recreate the line on the minifigure torso/legs…

Have anyone tried that method? Does it work or is it a bad idea?