SCORE!!! sorta

[Chopper]

Well its not that exciting but its more than I usually get. I picked up a 1/18 green Kawasaki Ninja for $1.20 at the supermarket and a MOC ROC Shana Scarlet O'Hara for 23c at K-mart. Never got that kinda bargain before. Found the figure under the racks, last one in the store.

So now I have 2 MOC ROC's for which to tease Eddie with.

[Thundershot]

Why, you little tease, you...

& , Just to windup Eddie a little bit more, I purchased a vintage Imp' Storm-trooper for a quid @ a car boot sale last Sunday...said figure is sitting in a jar of peroxide as we speak, & bubbling away nicely

[Jimbobx]

Nice work, Mark. 23c must be the bargain of the year.

...said figure is sitting in a jar of peroxide as we speak, & bubbling away nicely

How long do you leave them in there? And what % is the peroxide?

[Thundershot]

I'm using 14% volume (the strongest I could find) with a tiny amount of that oxy stain remover stuff mixed in but, due to poor weather conditions @ the moment, it's a slow process..this particular figure was very clean & white, apart from a pink felt tip pen stain on the back of his leg, which after a weeks submersion is slowly but surely fading.

I've had success with about 5 Stormtroopers so far, during last months bright sunny warm spell, it took about a week to remove the (admittedly slight) yellowing..I think Chopper's experiment took a fraction of that time thanks to his geographic location.

The poorest result so far, is a a figure who had dark (almost pink) limbs, the process has worked to a great extent, he's far cleaner & fresher looking, but after about 3 weeks he still has a noticeable pink hue, I'm putting this down to unstable plastic used in manufacture.

Pink limbs variant?

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I've only tried this with Stormtroopers so far, nothing with sticky labels or other strong colours & can report no serious damage to the black painted on details, or comment on any long term bad effects to the figure.
The peroxide cost less than £5 from Sally hair supplies, must admit I did feel a bit embarrassed trying to explain what I needed it for to the nice (& very helpful) lady shop assistant , but @ the end of the day I'm now the proud owner of 6 minty white Star Wars figures

[Double-Tap]

great score Chops

[Thundershot]

Sorry, correction 12% (40 vol), & not 14% peroxide , just checked in the shed

Apologies for hijacking you thread too Mark

Do you have any photo's of your new goodies for us all to drawl over?

[Chopper]

S'OK mate. Cheers guys, tis a small victory.

As fer the peroxide, it was 30 degree's plus when I did it. I also did a VAM white Garrand 2 weeks ago. Its mid winter here and it took 3 days, probably could have done it a day or 2 more but it came up well. To speed up the operation stick the container under a fluro light. It should be quicker.