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01-25-2024, 12:34 AM | #21 |
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Its weird every single white part of it is turning the exact shade of brownish yellow color except his wrist bands, there is no discoloration going on throughout the figure like you see on most of them. Take a look on ebay most of them have a leg a head the back even yellowed its so goofy
AFA peroxide, Dusty's right, it will fade the painted parts. moreover, it will turn the plastic from glossy to more of a matte. You'll want to folow up with a plastic polish.
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01-25-2024, 12:35 AM | #22 |
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01-25-2024, 01:38 AM | #23 |
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So do people ever just paint their Stormy back to white? It would be just like doing a custom, yeah?
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01-25-2024, 08:54 AM | #24 |
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Id rather have them yellowed than look like this! |
01-25-2024, 10:03 AM | #25 |
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Ive seen people paint them but it never really turns out well, its just a fact that white figures like Storm Shadow, Ace & Snow Job will inevitably turn yellow at some point no matter what condition you get them in! And the videos of guys using chemicals to brighten them usually always end up ruining the figure while claiming good results. How can you say it came out with good results if all the skin paint is now white making them look like a ghost?
Id rather have them yellowed than look like this! I don't get why someone would go to all the trouble to bleach him and then not touch up the paint on the face, shrunken, etc. Yeah the eyes might be tricky but someone at the factory did it 40 years ago, so surely..? In 2020 I retouched the paint on a lot of my vintage figures, it was fun!!
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01-25-2024, 10:16 AM | #26 |
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Polymer oxidation . And the thing that's a bitch is that it doesn't really require prolonged UV/heat exposure, just exposure that was long enough at some point in the figures 40 year lifespan, and the results of that exposure aren't always immediately apparent. It's like action figure cancer. He may have had his stored in a cool dark place, but did the previous owner? The owner before that? The store that originally sold it?
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01-25-2024, 10:17 AM | #27 |
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Someone was dumb and didn't mask the painted areas in that photo.
I use Quake Hold to mask things when I peroxide them, but lots of things work. It needs to not dissolve in peroxide, which is just about anything. Silly putty, blue poster putty, etc. I would also mask any flesh colored areas you don't want bleached.
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01-25-2024, 11:50 AM | #28 |
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Very true. A while back, I found my son trying to wash one of his 6-inch modern Star Wars Stormtrooper figures. I asked him what happened. It turns out the figure had started to discolor. He thought it was dirty and he could wash the yellow off it. The figure was only about a year old. My son was really bummed out.
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01-25-2024, 09:49 PM | #29 |
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Ive seen people paint them but it never really turns out well, its just a fact that white figures like Storm Shadow, Ace & Snow Job will inevitably turn yellow at some point no matter what condition you get them in! And the videos of guys using chemicals to brighten them usually always end up ruining the figure while claiming good results. How can you say it came out with good results if all the skin paint is now white making them look like a ghost?
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01-25-2024, 10:10 PM | #30 |
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I've got to get some salon peroxide to finish my daughter's deer skull for a European mount she killed earlier this month. Might play around with a couple figures. Where do you get that Quake Hold?
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