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Will try out those tips! Cheers
No worries.Will try out those tips! Cheers
Really? I don't think any of my recent white troops from the last 6 or 7 years have any discolouring of that kind going on.Every once in a while I get the odd Star Wars figure and it makes me take out a bunch of figures to take me back to the old days when these were my collecting focus. (I got Vizam, the sailbarge gunner) And I take out a VTSC Biker Scout - yellow chest. I take out a few more, a few more yellow chests and others with white chests but very yellow abdomen sections.
*sigh* I hate this discoloration crap. I'm sure Ackbar hasn't got long left of being white.
It surprised me aswell. I didn't think it had been that long since I last went through the ol' Star Wars figures. But sure enough yellow chests. Oddly enough the softer plastic of the arms was still white. I would have thought if anything would turn yellow it'd be the softer plastic. I thought wrong.
Disappointing though. Its annoying that you just can't stop this crap from happening. Even my Hot Toys figures aren't immune, namely my T-1000s - all their outfits have faded over time. Its not just direct sunlight you have to worry about, its the type of artificial light you're using aswell. You need LED bulbs, not the typical incandescent or halogen bulbs. I dunno if that had any bearing on the rapid discolouration of my biker scouts though, they were hidden away.
God help my vehicles up in the attic.
Good points there mate.If anything is fading because of typical incandescent or fluorescent room lighting, then it has a serious manufacturing defect. If you were to run a test where you placed an object directly under the unshielded bulb, that's a different story entirely. But most installations use shades or encasements of some kind which drastically reduce or completely eliminate the amount of UV light coming from those sources.
Poor UV stabilization is just the beginning, some of these products are simply produced with materials that will degrade, including yellowing, over time regardless of exposure to light. Plenty of people know about paper goods and plastics yellowing with exposure to air only, or from being in proximity of something else to react with. Plus temperature, humidity or lack thereof. The bottom line is that the issues are entirely to blame on cheap manufacturing and a manufacturer that just didn't care at all about the quality of their goods.
Hot Toys are nice, but I have enough of them to know that they don't give a rat's a55 about the longevity and robustness of their products.
My toy collection ranges from 1960's to just weeks ago.
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