How to clean safely plastic figures?

You can use cold water, hands soap and a soft sponge to clean them :)

Hi, Jarda
It is a very interesting subject
Try to look here :

https://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t2060-how-do-you-clean-your-animals

But there are probably more to say about it

jarda wrote:

Please help, I bought load of old Britains figures, most of them seriously need some clearing procedure. Can You recommend room-temperatured water and cotton or anything else?

Ahoj Jardo... nejlepší je použít mýdlovou vodu a vatičku do uší... figurku nechat chvíli ve vodě odmočit a pak ji lehce vatičkou zbavit nečistot. Ale záleží na druhu znečištění...

MartinH wrote:

jarda wrote:

Please help, I bought load of old Britains figures, most of them seriously need some clearing procedure. Can You recommend room-temperatured water and cotton or anything else?

Ahoj Jardo... nejlepší je použít mýdlovou vodu a vatičku do uší... figurku nechat chvíli ve vodě odmočit a pak ji lehce vatičkou zbavit nečistot. Ale záleží na druhu znečištění...

Ahoj Martin!
I'll follow your suggestion!!!

Me too , if I could
Doesn`t it say : Stand on your head in a night with full moon, singing "Battle hymn of the Republic" and waving the Czech flag ?

SUSANNE wrote:

Me too , if I could
Doesn`t it say : Stand on your head in a night with full moon, singing "Battle hymn of the Republic" and waving the Czech flag ?

exactly!

MartinH wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Me too , if I could
Doesn`t it say : Stand on your head in a night with full moon, singing "Battle hymn of the Republic" and waving the Czech flag ?

exactly!

See what Google translator is saying:
Hi Jarda ... Best is to use soapy water and cotton wool in the ears ... figure to have a moment to soak in water and then lightly with cotton wool to get rid of impurities. But it depends on the type of pollution ...

Well, I'm keeping the cotton in the ears for hours and figures are still dirty... how long it takes Martin???

Roger wrote:

MartinH wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Me too , if I could
Doesn`t it say : Stand on your head in a night with full moon, singing "Battle hymn of the Republic" and waving the Czech flag ?

exactly!

See what Google translator is saying:
Hi Jarda ... Best is to use soapy water and cotton wool in the ears ... figure to have a moment to soak in water and then lightly with cotton wool to get rid of impurities. But it depends on the type of pollution ...

Well, I'm keeping the cotton in the ears for hours and figures are still dirty... how long it takes Martin???

Roger Roger do you have photos? i mean... imagine you with those things in your ears and your animals bathing is soapy water... that´s cool Anyway... translator is good but It supose to be this...

Oh stop! Stop !

I can`t laugh any more, my tears are running, I must soon have cotton wool in my eyes or I soak in water

Thanks to You all for sharing your experiences.

BTW: A speciální díky Tobě, Martine, vypadá to, že použiju osvědčené mýdlo s jelenem a o víkendu budu mít "velké prádlo" :)

jarda wrote:

Thanks to You all for sharing your experiences.

BTW: A speciální díky Tobě, Martine, vypadá to, že použiju osvědčené mýdlo s jelenem a o víkendu budu mít "velké prádlo" :)

What on earth is a stag weekend

Danish :
En særlig tak, Martin, det lader til, at de bruger en god sæbe med en hjort weekend og vil have en "stor tøj"

English :

A special thank you, Martin, it seems that they use good soap with a stag weekend and will have a "great clothes"

It's a week end with extra branches, it means that friday and monday are holidays!
Tomorrow is the day of Portugal and monday is the day of Lisbon! Nice to know that in Czech Republic you also celebrate these days!

Oh dear this topic is so funny!

Roger wrote:

It's a week end with extra branches, it means that friday and monday are holidays!
Tomorrow is the day of Portugal and monday is the day of Lisbon! Nice to know that in Czech Republic you also celebrate these days!

cool! Y´all are so good in Czech language

jarda wrote:

Thanks to You all for sharing your experiences.

BTW: A speciální díky Tobě, Martine, vypadá to, že použiju osvědčené mýdlo s jelenem a o víkendu budu mít "velké prádlo" :)

No... snad to pomůže

what do you use to clean your second hand figures? i use ordinary soap and water (room temp). i heard of dish washing liquid. is it better than soap? i'd like to know what you guys use and how you go about cleaning them. :)

There is already a topic about this Sauroid. I will merge your's and I hope you will find good answers

ah ok thanks Kiki.

SUSANNE wrote:

jarda wrote:

Thanks to You all for sharing your experiences.

BTW: A speciální díky Tobě, Martine, vypadá to, že použiju osvědčené mýdlo s jelenem a o víkendu budu mít "velké prádlo" :)

What on earth is a stag weekend

Danish :
En særlig tak, Martin, det lader til, at de bruger en god sæbe med en hjort weekend og vil have en "stor tøj"

English :

A special thank you, Martin, it seems that they use good soap with a stag weekend and will have a "great clothes"

You friends are so funny.

Google translate seems to work not so bad in translating Czech into Polish though, so what I could read was quite easy to understand :)
But I thought the soap is "with stag" (not weekend) so this animal is on the drawing on the package, it's popular type of soap in Poland (so maybe also in Czech?)

For vintage plastic animals this link will help:

http://www.britainsheraldfarm.co.uk/Collecting.html

Here is the information:

"Cleaning

Most models are not suited to cleaning as play worn ones look odd when clean and mint figures are usually clean already. However, occasionally a model turns up that is in lovely condition except a bit dirty.
When cleaning a model, there is always a chance some paint will be lost. However, this is normally loose paint that would come off sooner or later anyway.

To clean a model, I simply use a bit of water and washing-up liquid. For large, unpainted areas I use a cotton bud to work in the washing-up liquid and for painted areas I use a tiny, soft (sable or simulated) paintbrush. When cleaning painted areas, always brush from the painted area towards the bare plastic. If you work the other way, the brush hairs can find their way under the paint and dislodge it."

(c) J. Stephens 2009

Mr Stephens is an acknowledged expert on Britains Herald Vintage farm figures.

For later Britains animals made in PVC and painted in PVC paints then I simply wash them in warm soapy water and scrub them with an old tooth brush. I would not recommend this technique with old animals figures with flaky paint. You would just wash off whatever remains of any paint!

I just rinse my figures in tap water.

I normally use methylated spirit, for light stains like ink or dirt. But for heavy stains, i use chlorine solution like Willy does :)

I use a liquid soap made of glicerine and coconut with a tooth brush...it works nicely on them !

JoeJungle71 wrote:

I use a liquid soap made of glicerine and coconut with a tooth brush...it works nicely on them !

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