Wall•E shining eyes

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• legomatt Member Posts: 2,548

  September 2015

  He certainly looks wistful and 'starry eyed'. 
  
  On anther tangent... this is the part where Deckard zooms the image into the eyes, extrapolates the surrounding area the shot was taken in from the reflection, compensates for the curve, zooms again, locates another reflection in the window panes, zooms again, extrapolates the far corner/neighbours house from that reflection, adjusts for distortion, adjusts for light, zooms again... locates a Mr Gold.
  
  :o)
  
  

  

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• HangedSanchez United KingdomMember Posts: 310

  September 2015

  Looks good, and it definitely works for the model.
  
  Part of me is objecting loudly to modifying lego pieces though...

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• Rails Brierley Hill, UKMember Posts: 143

  September 2015

  HangedSanchez said:

  Looks good, and it definitely works for the model.
  
  Part of me is objecting loudly to modifying lego pieces though...

  As far as modifying goes polishing a piece of Lego is pretty low down the scale of seriousness in my opinion.

  

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• pharmjod 1,170 miles to Wall Drug, USAMember Posts: 2,899

  September 2015

  ^this

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• HangedSanchez United KingdomMember Posts: 310

  September 2015

  Rails said:

  HangedSanchez said:

  Looks good, and it definitely works for the model.
  
  Part of me is objecting loudly to modifying lego pieces though...

  As far as modifying goes polishing a piece of Lego is pretty low down the scale of seriousness in my opinion.

  
  I may have misunderstood... I thought he had applied a coating to them.

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• TheLoneTensor MericaMember Posts: 3,950

  September 2015

  Polishing usually involves some kind of compound.  Whether you consider that a coating or not is another story.  Whether you consider that to be "modifying a Lego piece is yet another story.
  
  Whatever it is, it looks great to me.
  

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• bkpr Texas, USAMember Posts: 295

  September 2015

  Hey all.
  
  Yes, there was a mild polishing compound, followed by buffing very rigorously with a microfibre cloth, followed by pre-sealant, a coat of chemical sealant, and finally a buffing. I had some time on my hands :)
  

  
  

  Looking at the picture again, it doesn't do the reflection justice (or maybe there's a little camera shake). 

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• Dedgecko Seattle, WAMember Posts: 799

  September 2015

  @bkpr do you have an off camera flash, diffuser, or flash bouncer?
  
  i think it looks really good with what you have already.

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• TigerMoth Member Posts: 2,343

  September 2015

  
  

  bkpr said:

  
  

  Yes, there was a mild polishing compound,
  

  That's probably OK.
  

  followed by buffing very rigorously with a microfibre cloth
  

  It removes a little plastic, but so does normal wear and tear.
  

  bkpr said:

  
  

  followed by pre-sealant, a coat of chemical sealant, and finally a buffing
  

  Heresy! Get the matches!
  
  

  

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