Fix It Guide - Cheap and easy De-yellowing Star wars figures - Toy Polloi
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- How to de-yellow vintage star wars figures for only £1. Works really well and is as easy as can be.
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For anybody watching in 2023, this is a common practice in the video games collectors space and it's referred to as Retr0Brighting. It's normally used for console shells, controller shells, plastic cartridges, etc. There are various recipes to create a fast acting gel which negates the need to submerge them completely, usually using a 12-15% HP solution, but an interesting revelation is that you may no longer need to submerge or apply gel directly to the plastics. It's been found that pouring a small amount of HP into a container, then placing items on a platform within the container (keeping them out of the liquid), sealing it and then placing it in direct sunlight can work very effectively. The sunlight evaporates the HP and the gas trapped in the container does the work. It might help with issues like streaking or patching where the effect is inconsistent on the same piece. Just thought people might like to know.
Superior composition shot: before/after. Efficient use of viewer's time. Awesome video!
Thanks so much! Appreciated.
Brilliant. As a budget vintage collector, this is new to me, so thank you.
a UV light will give you better results and more controll. The sunshine method is ok too, Just a lot of variables.Also, when the red colour washes out on the insignias, you can wipe it off completelywith nail varnish remover or acetone. Then just bob down to your local print shop and (using WATER SLIDE PAPER found on ebay) have decals made to replace them. Just like models, soak and slide and the tiny symbols are even better than factory! (there are videos here MAKING WATER SLIDE DECALS and APPLYING WATER SLIDE DECALS).....just make sure the print shop has a LASER printer and use HI-DEF images for the printer to go off of.
R.Layne Paris The UV light is a good idea. But I try and do all my fixes the cheapest way possible and those lights are expensive. Check out my other videos on how to make replacement decals.
I appreciate how your videos are super informative and yet you have no need to be a comedian. Thank you. It’s refreshing
Thank you so much for this tip as I have just got back into collecting my childhood figures and quite a lot are yellow so I will give this tip a go
Thank you very much!! Very informative and no ads!
Thanks for posting this - I've just restored a Mego Sir Lancelot figures armour using with this technique. It worked brilliantly, it's gone from a nasty nicotine yellow to lovely & white. Thanks very much!
This is amazing!!!! I had a few Playmobil elements that had turned yellowish and made them sparkling white again by doing your technique! It literally only took one day. I do have to say that I'm in Southern California and that it's the beginning of June, so plenty of strong sunlight. Thank you so much for this!!!
👍👍👍
I tried this technique on a pdp hard torso snowtrooper, had him in direct sunlight for 3 hours and the results was amazing.
He pure white now. Thanks for posting 😀👍
Is the figure still white?
@@DragonRoyZ yes still white even now
You're simply a genius mate!!! I was just looking for a tutorial to de-yellow something like 30 star wars figures and I've tried almost everything before... Thank you very much!!!
Did it work?
Yes for about a year it will work then it will look worse then before you did it
Oh look,@3:56 a snow trooper and AT-AT drivers in a "Bacta-Tank"
Ba-dum (*cymbal crash*)
navyman4 nice one
Big big thanks! been working through my figures since watching this. Amazed at the results so far. Although the lady in boots did give me a funny look when I asked for five bottles
bingobongo33 How did you know she was in boots, did she step
out from behind the counter? Ba-dum-tish!
Mmmm, pickled Imperials. Great picnic item.
Your videos are ace mate. Your restorations and reviews so well detailed. in your vides your always calm and talk normally unlike that guy on Retroblasting that guy has serious issues never seen anyone get so angry and agitated over toys.
+Supernatural Rules Thanks.
Awesome buddy I'm a GI JOE guy and in the 80s they released a lot of snow white guys so this is a great help...for you Storm Shadow fans apparently you put blu tak on the Cobra symbol then soak them in peroxide
Hi Dave. Glad you’ve brought this approach to my attention. I’ve used a 12% HP gel on figures following your video here, to great effect (keeps the bleaching focused to the effected areas). Just wondering if you think the use of HP (gel format) could be used to de-yellow the bubble of carded figures (I’d cover the card to protect it from the sun) and not affect the figure or damage the bubble further. Thanks in advance and keep up the great videos 👍🏻 cheers
I love your videos.
The go to channel for all things toys.
Thanks 👍
They came out very well!
Thanks for sharing this, I will have to try this. I subbed. :)
Thanks for this TP. I've tried it on snow troopers and ATAT drivers to much success. I've also managed to turn a rebel commander from creamy brown back to his original colour and also on the top glass of a millennium falcon which I was well surprised at.
Good work.
Excellent video, can you please do a video or advise on how to resolve discoloration of vintage AT AT's. Thanks
I have found this technique also works beautifully on POTF2 and other figures. Best use for this technique is yellowed stormtroopers.
Paint usually fades or changes color if left in peroxide for more than a day, especially shades of red and brown. It has no effect on black, white, or gray paint.
Also, 3% hydrogen peroxide works just as well as the 5% solution.
Thanks! I really needed this, I'll be back in a week to say if it helped!
Still waiting.
Great video.
If it's nicotine stains, I found that a little bleach spray will usually take the yellow off instantly. If it's yellowed due to the bromide in the plastics, then the peroxide treatment works best in my experience. Regardless of which method you use, there's always the associated risk of damaging the figure.
Excellent video. I wonder if you could de-yellow bubbles on MOC figures the same way? Not leaving it in the sun, maybe, but wiping it with hydrogen peroxide. And what percentage?
Nice ot know 6% can work. I'm lucky my originals stayed pretty white. I've kept them in the Star wArs action figure cases. My friend's are very yellow though.
For the de-yellowing I use hydrogen peroxide in cream 40 vol, just put the cream in the figures and then wrap them in plastic food wrap film, put it under a UV lamp for 3 or more hours, the de-yellowing is amazing.
I do the same and it works amazingly well and Much quicker. Gotta be careful with paint tho
I guess I am glad I live in Vegas... I should be able to clean mine up in no time
Thanks for sharing this, I will have to try this. I subbed.
Welcome onboard!
Like the advice. Rubbing alcohol wipes work instantly and evaporate quickly.
Nice tip thanks for sharing
hi great tips thanx, does it work for yellowing packages?
Would this work on something like a Vintage Snow Speeder? (Obviously would need a larger container)
Great video
Thank you, Toypolloi
What paint did you use? amazing work!!!
This looks great, however... I'm a modern action figure collector, like Clone wars, Vintage collection, etc... Would this work on that kind of figures? And wouldn't paint details be ruined?
Many thanks for this advice. It's taken me just over 24 hours to de-yellow an old stinking vintage Stormtrooper with 6% Hydrogen Peroxide. His torso has become ice white but due to the different composite plastic his arms and legs look a greyish stone white in comparison. Great stuff and keep up the excellent videos!
Simon Worley You get varying results with stormtroopers. Every one I have is made from slightly different plastic and they each seem to react slightly differently.
Simon Worley ...In the movie, Snowtrooper sleeves and pants were a more grayish white than the armor and helmet anyway. So it's all good!
Yep
boss is it safe for figure material PVC, Abs? and will it affect the figure in the feature for using this method? please kindly answer I'll be looking forward for it thank youuu
I leave some of my stormtroopers with yellowing for Tatooine dioramas, they lend themselves perfectly .I'm not saying keep them all dirty, just a few.Ive been collecting loose star wars toys since 1978.Only recently got a computer and am already addicted to Toy Polloi and retro-Blasting.Cant wait to try this cleaning method.
Hi Roger, I have to say I don't de yellow all my troopers anymore. I have so many and I quite like the variety of them. But it's useful to know you can. Glad you are enjoying my videos. You've got lots to catch up on!
Hi mate , Its fantastic to see people restoring old toys,you wouldn't believe the rows I've had with collectors about cleaning and repairing star wars and other vintage pieces.I will always be obsessed with star wars and action force,at the end of the day its not worth suffering over . Action force was one of my favourite things in my youth and like star wars i have thousands of them ,too many really .The idea was to create massive dioramas but with room limitations it never really happened. My family believe my collecting habits have gone a bit to far, but its farely easy to store ..Im not afraid to use a bit of paint touching up old figures myself ,the criticism i received from some of my old star wars friends was unbelievable. Its the noses i find the problem. Keep the videos coming i absolutely brill .
There is no right or wrong way to collect no matter what people say. As long as you enjoy it, then that's all that matters. I get a fair amount of flak, mainly from SW collectors, about what I do and what I show people. Not everyone wants perfect toys, and i'm just pleased I can help give people on ideas of how to repair their childhood collections. Keep on enjoying them.
Absolutely.
Very Nice. Thank you. How about de yellowing an imperial shuttle?
Thank you very much
Does this work on new(er) stuff, I've got a ton of clone troopers that are maybe 10 years old that have gotten pretty yellowed
Does it need to be a transparent bottle for this to become effective? Because I have a figure that couldn’t be fit on any available transparent
Bottles.
Possibly silly question Dave: Can you re-use the Hydrogen Peroxide after a treatment, or do you have to dispose of it?
two days in the sun is too much, I bleached out one of my figures by mistake. otherwise it works. several great videos on this, I had good results with even the low percent stuff in a plastic bag in the window sill on a sunny day.
i have a few questions. will this work on a original gameboy and will i have to take out the screen?
Nice ... never actually tried this...
I have some of the newer biker scouts that need fixing
Will your bleaching method also work on discolored Ewoks?
That's crazy isn't it the sunlight and the type of plastic that makes them go yellow? Kool chemical reactions to make them white again using the same source that made them yellow!
How would this work an original release Tatooine Luke? Mine has a telescoping saber. The arms and lower waist have yellowed. I’m afraid that the paint will come off his hands and legs. Do you think that might happen?
how it is named that proces when you paint something (for example a figure) with a cheap red marker for disks and the area that is not painted turns in a redish white after a while?cause I really dont know.Thanks
Right thanks.
as this is a relatively recent method of de-yellowing figures, not many people commented on the effects after years from the treatment. I can say that it works great, but after about 2 years my figures went back to the original yellow. Two years is still a lot of time and this is great for display purposes, but I know that many collectors think about long-term storage and their (our) brains think in the order of decades, so they might want to know: this is not a permanent solution.
Hi is this process safe for the yellowing of clam shell casing?
I found that you can also use OxiClean (Sodium Percarbonate detergent) mixed with water. The rest of the process is the same: put your toys in a sealed container under bright sunlight.
How would this apply to a vehicle? I have a Tie Fighter that could use some de-yellowing.
Does this work on yellowing on the flesh colored bits?? ie: the head, hands
Any ideas on how i will do this, on a Kenner Legends Of Batman silver Batmobile.?
Thanks ToyPolloi
Is there any other method of deyellowing figures without damaging the paint?
How often do you use the proxide befor you pour IT away?
I have a massive LAAT gunship toy that has been yellowed out severely, i am willing to sacrifice a couple of stickers, but will it remove paint? Please help!
Thanks so much for your videos! Glad to find your channel! I have a set of GI Joes from the 80's in which, as a kid, I painted with cheap model paint to differentiate from my friends' figures. Today I would like to restore those figures to their original paint as best I could. Would you recommend a soaking in thinner or would Hydrogen Peroxide? Thanks so much for your advice!
David Osborne Hey there. If you are wanting to de-yellow, then use Hydrogen Peroxide. To remove the old paint, it depends on what the paint was you used. Acetone can work, but can also damange the plastic. Do tests on a figure you don't care about first. And see what works.
Can it also work on colored plastics? I own the Zyuranger DaiZyujin and I noticed the yellow parts.
Hi,will it work in a dark chamber with a Uv lamp?
Can you just cost the areas that need it with a brush then leave in a jar instead of using an entire bottle of hydrogen peroxide? Or it only works if you drown the figures?
How do you de yellow plastic? I have vintage figures still in the packaging but the plastic is yellow tint
I live in Cumbria so sadly get no sun just had over 65 days of rain.and floods.but thanks 4 the heads up.
Hope the rain stops soon for you all. We had similar here in Somerset a few years back.
just got a load of vintage star wars toy 4 Christmas.
Nice.
+Wally Thornton Surround the recipe by aluminium foil and put a light upon the recipe.
Your videos are so incredibly helpful. I have a 2002 1st edition Master replica lightsaber , with a fixed blade. But it’s going yellow. Do you think this would work?
I can't say I know. Not sure what those are made of. And de-yellowing can often make clear plastic go cloudy.
Thanks for the tip! Gonna try this out when the weather gets better! Would this work on gi joe figures? Or is it a different plastic?
It should do. It works best with the harder plastic used in the bodies of SW figures. I have used this on 3 3/4 inch mego's and it works just fine. Cheers
Hello. Will doing this damage the painted parts?
Does this work on the newer figure?
Can I do this for the clone ars clone trooper figures that have paint and yellowing
One question - does it works under UV light lamp, or you need only sunlight?
Can this work on other action figures?
Does this work on yellow stains from other sources? I accidentally got a dab of this sticky yellow medicine on a white SW figure and the stain from come out.
will this work for vint-MOTUs (Prince Adam in particular)?
Thank you for sharing this! Does this impact the articulation of the figures?
No, not at all.
great tip!!
But is it necessary to fill up the whole jar with Hydrogen Peroxide when you only want to remove specific yellowing from specific parts though since Hydrogen Peroxide does bleach figures if they were overused?
do you think that orange paint will survive?
I wonder if this works with the 2002 Skeletor. His chest on one side has really changed badly. :(
Great video. But...do you know if this same technique would also work on modern figures?
TheCommander35 Should work just as well on modern figures. Give it a go.
@@toypolloi Hello, I was watching this video of yours on de-yellowing figures and I have a question about that. Sometimes a toy card bubble will become yellow and look a bit ugly when you are showing off the toy. If I remove a yellowed bubble, flipped it upside down and poured hydrogen peroxide up to the brim, could I remove the yellowing without damaging the bubble? I'm asking because it is thin plastic compared with toy figures.
Great video. Do you do this process in the winter with no sun? Or do you wait until Spring?
I wait until the summer in the UK.
Fascinating how one of the most effective methods is the cheapest.
To stop loss of the red on the helmet you could carefully paint wax or latex over the design maybe?
Would this work on a Pink Power Ranger Figure?
Hi there, I did this procedure with my action figures and I have to say it works perfectly (just 4 hours for a wampa and no more than 2 for stormtrooper, Leia hoth, rebel command and luke hoth) * except Leia the brown colour turns into yellow (it was a very sunny day in Madrid). But I have question...do you think this procedure will work on a Taun taun?? thank you.
It should work. I used the hydrogen peroxide cream on and old Taun Taun and it came out fine.
Great video, trying it on a tusken raider and a snowtrooper right now. I have an r5-d4 that has yellowing, wanted to fix yellowing on head and body before apply a repro sticker. Will this process hurt the chrome? If so any suggestions?
+Joshua G I've not tried it on the chrome. I would do a test on that first.
Thank you Sir. One question: does this process ruin metal parts? I own a yellow Mego Micronaut Force Commander to work on, I just wonder if I have to disassembly it before starting.
I've never tried.
Hi there Great channel. Do you know how to remove/repair limbs of a Wampa for cleaning?
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I'm doing it for my stroom trooper action figure
Terrific video, I have a few yellow figures that I would love to make white again. Can I ask where you get the £1 bottles from? I have been to local stores and can't find any under £5 a bottle.
In the UK, boots, superdrug, sainsburys. Anywhere that has a pharmacy really.
Would this process work on vehicle toys like the Action Fleet Millenium Falcon?
It's worth a try. Do some tests.
Nice work. Have you ever done this to an R5D4? I have a very yellow one and I fear that the red paint will turn orange.
Of course. th-cam.com/video/cSoQtxvf5rM/w-d-xo.html
Great video! Now, I know how to de- yellow my Luke Stormtrooper! Thank you for the advice.
Does this work with blue figured like the Beast form the 90s x-men line or the Tick figures also from the 90s? Great help on the cheap, thank you for sharing your wisdom?!!
I've never tried. Would be worth doing some test before you do the figures you really want to do.
@@toypolloi ok, thanks again!!
@@toypolloi ps Merry Christmas to you and Mrs Toy Polloi!!!
I wonder if this works with a UV light.
Will that work with transparent or glow in the dark figures too? I have a yellowed Satan from Devilman done by Fewture and want to give him/her some beauty treatment.
It can cause clear plastic to go frosty and I've never tried it with glow in the dark plastic so can't say.
@@toypolloi Thanks for the expert opinion. I think I'll give it a go. If anything unexpected happens, will let you know