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 Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:28 am
Anyone who puts figures of any kind on display for a significant length of time knows exactly what I'm talking about. Dust collects on your collection. Washing it off is dangerous, because if you don't get it all off before it dries it becomes some kind of micro-concrete that'll haunt your figure's crevices 'til doomsday.
So how do you combat this menace?
I've got a toothbrush dedicated to the task, but the dust seems to slowly leaving some invisible force field behind that's reducing its effectiveness bit by bit. I recently bought some clear vinyl sheeting to install in the sides of my cheap metal shelves to keep out the crap so I don't have to brush them as often.
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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:52 am
i dont have the space yet to show off all of my transfromers so at thr frist sngs of the dreded dust they go into tubs.
i like the long flat like tubs i dont like packing my guys ontop of one another the softer parks get bent and theres no fixing that.
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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:21 pm
Oxygen tanks you use for keyboards seem to work smile A blast of that will make the dust go away. No matter how you wipe its always there! Sadly I know exactly what you are talking about and I've thought about dunking the entire figure in water and just let it sit there for a while. All the plastic ones anyway confused
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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:16 pm
Trust me, I learned the hard way with LEGOs. You do not want to get dust wet at all. If you miss any, it dries into something on another level of annoyance entirely.
I've tried the canned air, but it seems to be hit and miss. if the greeblies or joints are shaped just the wrong way the canned air doesn't seem to do much good.
The material for wrapping the shelves was actually pretty cheap. I have 2 sets of cheapo Wal-mart shelves made of thin sheet metal. The material to cover them, including 3 yards of vinyl, a roll of double-sided tape to lay under the seams at the top and bottom to keep the dust out, and 5 feet of adhesive-backed velcro to let me leave the front open as an access flap came to just under twenty bucks. (I forget how much the shelves were because I've had them for a while, but they were pretty cheap as I recall.)
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:56 pm
If you've got an old t-shirt you're throwing away anyway, cut a generous square off of it. It makes an excellent dust cloth.
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:54 pm
I just let my s**t get dusty. >_> What can I say? I'm lazy.
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 5:51 am
A barber brush is excellent I use it to clean dust off whatever be it my TFs, Joes, 40k models, or my weapon here in Iraq. The thin bristles can route out even well hidden dust
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:27 pm
Meirelle
I just let my s**t get dusty. >_> What can I say? I'm lazy.
lol and btw ur avi rox mega rainbow sox
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:59 pm
DX_ DecepticonKilla_XD Meirelle
I just let my s**t get dusty. >_> What can I say? I'm lazy.
lol and btw ur avi rox mega rainbow sox
Thank you! :3
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:55 pm
Yamato1 On a related note, I HATE how in the Classics line, Prowl, Silverstreak, and Ironhide have that paint on their transluscent plastics... I don't know why, but that paint absorbs dirt, oil, and anything else into it. I had to repaint my Classics Prowl's white areas as a result, because merely handling it made that paint start to turn... tan. And yet, Ratchet, Bumblebee, Hould, Inferno, Skyfire.. they didn't have this problem. So what was done differently? They didn't go cheap on paint =D
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