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Re: The plastic piecepacks are here

Ron: We can do set 2 with the colors we have. For set 3 there may be a few wrinkles. I think we are missing orange and light blue and white might be problematic - since the core of the parts are white, then the symbols would be very hard to view. We could do a black foil with white symbols on it or maybe some off-white color with enough contrast. Our original plan was to do all three sets in monochrome, but as always, the piecepack forum is a place where good ideas show up and make our products better. Let us do some research and we'll see what we come up with. I would like to do the plastic piecepacks in their intended colors (with all having a sky blue back like you see in the pictures on the website) - that would probably the best solution, but I don't want to offer it until we are sure set 3 would work out color-wise. 
Steve Jones
Blue Panther LLC
Ron Hale-Evans writes:
Steve, 
Thanks for the update. I would be willing to pay a little extra for a
four-colour plastic piecepack. 
Since you have red and black, you could do Set 2 the same way. Do you
have the necessary four new colours for Set 3? Thanks, Ron 
On 3/26/07, steve@... <steve@...> wrote:
Jorge and other piecepack enthusiasts: 
It may not be clear from the photos, but the plastic we are using on the
monochrome set is actually a white plastic core (1/8") with a "color
microcoating" (very thin foil) of sky blue on both sides.  I don't think
that the color or the graphic on the bottom of the piece is visible when you
place it on the table, but I do have the plastic colors for all of set one
(blue, green, red, black) so I will make a set and find out.  We might be
able to laser off the foil around the edges so that it would no longer be
visible unless you actually lifted the piece. 
The gold set is done with a different type of plastic - reverse engraving,
so the graphics are actually "buried" halfway in the piece.  You might be
able to see different colors if you played the game on a high contrast or
reflective surface - possibly, but not likely. 
Steve Jones
Blue Panther LLC Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez writes: 
> It seems like the whit part can be seen from the sides of the tiles.
> In this case, if there are different colors for each suit, you could
> probably tell which suit a face down piece is... I think you can even
> see the gold part from the other set when tiles are face down...
> unless you somehow cover/paint the sides...
>
> But it would be very nice...
>
> -Jorge
>
> On Mar 26, 2007, at 5:56 AM, David Mitchell wrote:
>
>> I know I'd be interested in a set in the four traditional colors.
>>
>> --- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Van Biesbrouck"
>> <mlvanbie@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> The sets look quite nice.  Would it be possible to make a set in the
>>> four traditional piecepack colours, possibly with a different-
>>> coloured
>>> back?  Based on the gold set shown, I think that the results could be
>>> quite striking and easily justify the current price.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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