De-yellowing Star Wars figures

[StarWarsFan]

Hi would you recommend it? Have never done it before has anyone tried it? Thanks

 

[lejackal]

Accoring to a post on the POTF/last 17 FB group this morning Yak pee is good for this :lol: :shock:

 

[StarWarsFan]

:lol: lovely (not)

 

[poncho]

:? I wouldnt bother with chemicals.

Just leave the yellowed figures be

 

[poncho]

This practise is on the rise. And you will notice there are more white stormtroopers on ebay than before this is due too this tecnique and 'poon troopers'.....

 

[MarkG]

Also heard that this whitening malarky is only temporary. Figures go yellow again.

 

[Dorsetmark]

If you give stormtrooper a good dose of UV ( leave on window sill ) they go white again

 

[Clarkspie&chips]

I toyed with bleaching my childhood figures earlier this year but changed my mind. They are what they are because I had so much fun with them when I was a kid, bleaching them back to tipex white would take away that history. Also, no one really knows what the long term effects of peroxide are on the plastic.

 

[StarWarsFan]

Thanks for the info guys

 

[x-pack]

Tried it on a 12 inch Stormy years ago with peroxide and it did work well, but before too long it went yellow again. Be careful if you do this. There was a thread not all that long ago where someone destroyed an Imperial Shuttle (it melted ).

 

[StarWarsFan]

It melted!!! OMG