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Getting rid of yellowing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Joe" data-source="post: 108372" data-attributes="member: 440"><p>I think its probably been done already, I think many of the minty whiter than white Stormies may already be bleached/treated as per the threads.</p><p></p><p>The reason a lot of people won't do it is because we simply don't know what the chemicals are doing to our 30 year old plastic or what will occur in the future as a result of messing with them.</p><p></p><p>If the stormies suddenly become brittle and crumble to dust because you wanted white ones then it would have just been a quick fix to a problem without a real solution (think of plastic surgery, you can't really slow down time just cover up the effects of it) and of course done in vain, you might as well just use tipex or paint.</p><p></p><p>It was discussed over on RS and it got far too technical and scientific for me to really grasp all of it but the jist of the "against" argument (and many people agreed) is that it a change to the chemical make up of the figures plastic is probably a bad idea, it also has varying degrees of success - some figures not reacting at all, others coming up super white on the first time yet needing "top ups" down the road.</p><p></p><p>All I would say is that if you decide its what you want to do- please let any future buyer of your white figures know you did this to them and they are not naturally white.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe, post: 108372, member: 440"] I think its probably been done already, I think many of the minty whiter than white Stormies may already be bleached/treated as per the threads. The reason a lot of people won't do it is because we simply don't know what the chemicals are doing to our 30 year old plastic or what will occur in the future as a result of messing with them. If the stormies suddenly become brittle and crumble to dust because you wanted white ones then it would have just been a quick fix to a problem without a real solution (think of plastic surgery, you can't really slow down time just cover up the effects of it) and of course done in vain, you might as well just use tipex or paint. It was discussed over on RS and it got far too technical and scientific for me to really grasp all of it but the jist of the "against" argument (and many people agreed) is that it a change to the chemical make up of the figures plastic is probably a bad idea, it also has varying degrees of success - some figures not reacting at all, others coming up super white on the first time yet needing "top ups" down the road. All I would say is that if you decide its what you want to do- please let any future buyer of your white figures know you did this to them and they are not naturally white. [/QUOTE]
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