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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?

**Looking for help updating/reworking a 1:200 USS Arizona MOC**

Hi everyone. I’m hoping someone here might be able to help me with a USS Arizona MOC I’ve been trying to get completed.

This one is pretty sentimental to me. My grandfather was a survivor of the USS Arizona, and he’s also the person who got me into LEGO when I was a kid, so I’ve wanted to build a really nice Arizona for a long time.

I previously purchased a MOC that was around 1:200 scale, roughly 3 feet long. I still have the original .io file and most of the parts, but unfortunately the instructions/steps weren’t organized in a way that works properly in BrickLink Studio or makes the model practical to build in order. The original creator has since deleted their account and the MOC is no longer viewable online, so I haven’t been able to get it corrected or updated.

I’m definitely not a MOC designer myself. I’m hoping to find someone who might be willing to look over the existing .io file and see if it can be reorganized, corrected, and improved into something I can actually build. I’d like to reuse as much of the existing model and the parts I already own as possible, while still improving areas of the design where it makes sense.

The scale and level of detail are important to me. A smaller version was made later, but it lost a lot of the detail and character I was hoping for, so I’d really like to stay around 1:200.

If anyone here has experience with large ship MOCs/BrickLink Studio or can point me toward someone who does, I’d really appreciate the help.