Yeah, the sapphires on the standard glamdring are... Well, I think they may actually be plastic- back when I used soot to antique, I accidentally got the sapphire too close to the flame and the surface bubbled a bit. Does glass do that?
But with the MC version, it's fine- actual sapphires used there (completely opaque and the wrong shape, but sapphires nonetheless, hehe).
Tried my first round of paint stripping, masked off the grip... Left the 1/2-hour brush-on stripping solution on for 45 minutes, went at it with a Scotch-brite... It got like half a layer off (and the paint is a satin clear coat with the creepy blue stuff on top, so not very much progress), so right now round 2 is happening (cleaned off all the gunk from round 1 before I started) >.<
Re: Giving Character to some of these UC replicas!
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