Re: Hot Toys - MMS DX 02 - TDK- BATMAN full spec and pics
No! Don't do that. There's no telling what soap/soapy chemicals could do to this thermoplastic rubber. The last thing you want is it oozing again.
I'll paste what I wrote on flickr.
"1: Compressed air cans. If there is ever any heavy stuff on it. Fine long nozzles come with them. Spray a good 7 - 8 inches away from the figure. Keep the can upright so it doesn't spit out any of the liquid when it's tilted. It's not hard to use but for somebody thats never used it before spray on an ornament or something not valuable until you get the feel how far you can angle it.
2: Sellotape. Like for full size clothes. Wrap a long strip around your finger until both ends stick, sticky side facing out of course. Keep dabbing or wiping on long areas until all fibers are gone. The clothes will be as clean as if you had just received the figure for the very first time. (use common sense when it comes to buckles, buttons, studs or any other delicate items attached to the clothes)
3: Sellotape again but the process for rubber suits. I've never had to use water on rubber figures. Kitchen roll can be evil even when wet or any tissues leaving fibers or can score the rubber especially Batman figures.
Wrap the sellotape around your finger like step 2. Only now dab the sellotape thats around your finger on your clothes, top or trousers until it takes the extreme sticky edge out of the tape but enough to leave a form of stickiness so that smaller particles come off the figure. The last thing you want is sellotape sticking to the rubber marking it or pulling the rubber and or paint thats on the suit like the DX02 Batman. (practice on some other cheap rubber material if you have any to get the feel of it before you feel comfortable doing it on your expensive figure(s))
This brings back the rubber suit to the look like you took it out of the box for the first time.
I've been doing these techniques for sometime now since I started collecting back in August 2008. I always store them back in the box anyway after they have been cleaned for some quick photos. Practically very little dust or fibers on them when taken back out of the box until next time. (hoping to have my displays built after the summer)"
Or use a little fine dry paint brush to get all the fibers off.