Cybertron.ca Update: Sun Damage Removal Tutorial

[dak]

Thanks to chans formers, we have a very exciting new tutorial in our art section. Since the beginning of the more recent TF lines, many of us have gone back and looked at our G1 figures and said OH NO, Sun Damage! Sun Damage being the yellowing of white TF parts. Chans formers has tried and tested a breakthrough method to remove this Sun Damage and with excellent results! Check out "chans formers Sun Damage Removal".

Give it a read and tell us what you think in this news thread, or leave chans formers a comment in his thread in progress.

If you have an art tutorial you would like to submit, PM it to me, and it will be added to our Tutorials Thread. If you have any other questions about this tutorials, ask in this news thread, or send a PM to chans formers or myself.

[Poho]

wicked! too bad there's no way to reverse fading of colored plastics. D:

[Mike]

I tried this with the 3% stuff, I didn't get results like that, but it did work pretty good after a few days (changed the mix a few times during the course of 2 days)

It didn't whiten it compltely, but it definitly helps.

[Bruticus82]

Originally Posted by Mike

I tried this with the 3% stuff, I didn't get results like that, but it did work pretty good after a few days (changed the mix a few times during the course of 2 days)

It didn't whiten it compltely, but it definitly helps.

I tried 3%. Made sure it was submerged, left it out in the sun for basically 2 days of direct sunlight outside. I didn't change the mixture at all.

Here are my results, before and after. I only dunked one half of the Pretender shell so you can see the differences. (I need to find a jar wide enough to fit his arms before I can dunk the other half). You'll notice the yellow is like 95% gone, I could have dunked it a little longer, but the grey on the legs is starting to fade too. I'm going to avoid that problem on the front by seeing what happens if I mask off the coloured areas with tape. Theory is: No Sunlight = less to know colour change.

Edit: What I have seen is it works best on actually white pieces, because other colours will fade with the Peroxide. Also, it doesn't remove sunfading as noted above, only sun "yellowing" so if your lavendar has become grey, you're probably out of luck. If it's become yellow, go for it.