restoration vintage Stormtrooper (de-yellowing and paint) - the dark side in light (bleached☀)
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2020
- This video shows how I restaurated my old Stormtrooper (1977).
After 40 years the figure no longer looks good (body strongly yellowed).
I tried bleaching (de-yellowing) the figure with hydrogen peroxide (3%), it works great.
Now some other figures can look forward to this treatment (in summer).
This video is not meant to be a manual. This video is not for children.
Only adults should work with these dangerous chemicals. Always wear protective clothing!
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I happen to love yellow troopers. Send them my way.
I am going to treat my army of stormtroopers with 3% pure + sun for the 2nd summer sun season.
The first one worked.exactly as shown in this video.thanks...
Amazing results!
Nicely done, looks great.
I've done this a couple of years now. Use pure (not mixed with water) 3% peroxide and put it into a glass jar with lid, making a small opening in the lid with a nail. Then put it in strong sunlight. Mine were white in a couple of hours. Clean the figure with some soapy water and let it dry. For the black paint recovery on the figure I use permanent markers. You can get them in different thicknesses. Gives me a steady hand painting.
You say you've been doing this for a couple years. What are the very first figures you did this with looking like at this point? I've heard concern that they could end up worse than they did before after the two year mark....but I've never seen photos that back up or debunk this claim.
@@TheSickNeeds I've used the peroxide on stormtroopers, snowtroopers and biker scouts. Because of the low percentage peroxide they yellow again after a couple of months, but they are still beter than the original yellowed ones. Snowtroopers stay nicely white, but the biker scouts yellow enough to be annoyed. I should have used 6% peroxide for a better result.
@@justfrank3135 Thanks for the feedback on that! That is the first time I've seen someone give an "update" report. I'd love to know what the preferred environment to keep them in to prevent it in the first place. I have a Carbonite Han that has a yellowed chest and I'm pretty hesitant about doing anything with him. I haven't even done any troopers yet but I have a couple that are yellower than threepio so it makes sense to give it a try on those at least.
@@TheSickNeeds You're welcome! I keep my figures in zip baggies, but even those don't protect figures against yellowing. You could try putting Han's chest in a jar with peroxide. It must be a sealable jar, make sure there is a tiny hole in the lid. Put it in the summer sun for a couple of hours. I can't guarantee anything, but a loose Carbon Han is affordable. How long the plastic remains intact over time I can't tell. But old plastic leaks anyway and after centuries it will dissolve.
@@justfrank3135 appreciate the update. The Han in carbonite isn't all that affordable to me as the cheapest one on Ebay (modern day show and tell) that doesn't come with the carbonite slab has a current asking price of $114 plus shipping...other than a trashed one coming from Europe that would cost $50 to ship my way making it an even more expensive choice.....but I don't shop on Ebay anyways. Its pretty nonsense there these days.
This deserves more attention
He devalued it by like 50 percent by bleaching it
how is he holding up?
I have one of these and although I want do this, there’s so many settings for a remnant or weathered one now it’s not necessarily necessary. Well done though you did a good job
which paint did you use to paint it?
Nice restoration. What brushes do you use? That looks like a real quality brush for that fine detail work.
how to restore painting of the figure that is coming out
I have an old figure, it looks perfect, but the top of the hair has faded a little. It was black and a little bluish. original figure how to restore faded hair? please
NICE nice
Is it yellowed again now? I've never had this technique last more than a few years on a dozens of items I used it on. And doing it multiple times isn't an option as each treatment breaks down the plastic further.
If you leave the Stormtroopers inside the hydrogen peroxide too long they turn pink and red in different areas.
did it affect the black colour at all? I would like to do multi coloured figures, can this method work well for those?
Just looking at the video, the black painted areas still look good. I'd love to get an expert opinion too, though.
I've got a set of the old Republic Commando figures that I'm wanting to de-yellow, so I would also like to make sure they don't lose all the other colors, too
Did you add some water with the peroxide ??? thanks for your answer.
No, only 3% peroxide. But I will also try 6% and 12%.
I have vinyl doll heads with yellow faces due to aging can i apply this trick?
I would guess that it works. But I don't really have any idea.
Starwars figures are lucky because the paint used appears unaffected (I say appears because I've never done this personally but watched many many vids on it)....my research had peoples saying that GI Joe figures aren't as lucky....some paints come off some don't.
What paint did you use
Acrylic mainly used.
@@crazyellis what brand did you use
@@escottamezcua6814 acrylic paint is all the same in a way..need to pay for a good micro paintbrush horse hair if u can. Don't go cheap on the paint meaning some can be watery. You can always tape around the area so you don't mess up. But if you do it can easily wipe off before it dries.
Would this work on a 2006 Saga Commander Cody?
Dont bleaching devalues them and in a year or so it will look worse then it did before
@@steven6157
Ok; you ever wonder why Hasbro just doesn’t make the torso out of the limb plastic since the limbs don’t appear to go yellow?
Yo tenía varios de esos, también dark vaders y yodas, pero como era pequeño los arruine todos y ahora veo que eran antiguos, no soy un boomer ni nada o sea en el 2010 era que tenía esos, los había encontrado super baratos en una venta de garage
Tal vez eran de la colección de alguien y tras morir pusieron sus cosas en venta
Don't work comes right back
After a year, the Stormtrooper still looks good. The yellowing has returned mini-minimally.
@@diynopro8360 what paint did you use
@@diynopro8360 How has it held up today? Would you say it needed another application? Can this procedure worsen the yellowing in any way after time?