What's under the chrome?

[Shakar]

I have a normal chrome gold king crown whose chrome isn't in good condition. I can't see how to use it, so I'd like to know: what's under the gold chrome?

Shakar

[natelite]

i think it is trans-clear. but to be certain you can take a close look at any chipped section of the helmet. what lies under it should be clear to you what color it is.

[oo7]

Yes, the greatswords are trans-clear when the paint chips away, but I'm not sure about the crown.

[ApophisV]

I am not sure about the crown, but some of my lightsaber hilts are made from a greyish plastic.

[El Bucanero]

One of my gold crowns changed to normal silver chrome, I think theres silver chrome under the gold layer, and trans clear under the silver....

Mr Tiber

[Shakar]

Silver chrome crown? That's rather interesting. I did see a silver-greyish colour in the parts of the crown where gold has been removed. Anyone tried to remove the gold before?

Shakar

[Unknown Artist]

Anyone tried to remove the gold before?

Happened to mine automatically after 10 years' handling... ;-)

[Shakar]

I removed all the chrome on the nose protector and I got trans clear....sweet. *sweet*

Unknown Artist, would you be able to post a pic? That would be very much appreciated. :-)

Shakar

[Unknown Artist]

I am moving to a new apartment, you see, so I have most of my stuff packed away. I hope to un-pack everything till the middle of the next week - will try to take some pics for you. Hope you aren't in a hurry... X-D

It's pretty much trans-clear, as you said, but I have some other gold items which became closer to silver in the past couple of years.

[Shakar]

Don't worry, I can wait.

Move soon in that damn apartment, slave!

Shakar

[Unknown Artist]

Glad the time isn't pressing.

You'll wait - unless you buy me a brand new villa at Beverly Hills with swimming pool, sauna and a Ferrarri in the garage! Do it or be damned forever!

:-P

[Lamanda2]

Underneath the chrome of the helmets is a perfect translucent crown,

..it actually looks like glass, I found out after reading a topic entitled 'Glass Armor?' in Classic-Castle's castle customs forum, I was curious if the crowns would become as clear as tthe armor, so a scrubbed at one with my Brasso for a bit, the only real downfall is that I could not properly get all of the chrome out from the inside of the crown.

If anybody was curious of what the clear armor looks like you can see it in the original post in the Glass Armor topic <here>

[Jipay]

Thanks a lot for the link ! Those armors look really cool. I might give a go to such an experiment soon. Did you checked your assumption of the sparkled armor plastic to be black ? Or is it still a guess. I'd just love to see some transparrent knight 8-|

[xwingyoda]

I thought that TLC managed a way to get the entire plastic "sparkled" (like they can have a mix of two colours on the same part - like the big rocks in light bluish grey and trans clear orange, or the Exo robots...).

I would think that the sparkle material is injected within the plastic but I might be wrong ;-)

Anyhow those "glass" armors really look nice ;-)

*yoda*

[Athos]

What's under the chrome?

You must be at least 18 to see... X-D

Steve

[xwingyoda]

What's under the chrome?

You must be at least 18 to see... X-D

Oh behave !! :-D :-P

*yoda*

[Shakar]

What's under the chrome?

You must be at least 18 to see... X-D

Steve

X-D

Here's a confirmation that crowns are transparent:

this is very cool,

If anyone ever wanted to build a cool lear novelty knight I just discovered last night that this also applies to crowns,though it is extremely hard to get the chrome off the inside of the crown,any suggestions?

The One who must be at least 18 to see what's under the chrome