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Started by drclaw , Feb 23 2015 10:41 AM

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#1 drclaw

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 10:43 AM

Hey I was looking through my muscle collection and found two figures that aren't really totally purple or totally dark blue.  The fronts are kind of purplish and the backs are close to blue.  I've included some pics, the figures in question are in the bottom, the other two are for colour reference.  Does anyone know about this?

 



I know it's kind of difficult to tell from the photos but they are more purple on front and more blue on the back....not really consistant colouring.



I know it's kind of difficult to tell from the photos but they are more purple on front and more blue on the back....not really consistant colouring.

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 10:48 AM

Looks like colour fade to me. I've had several purple fades and dark blue fades. I've even got a Ukon that is a mix of purple and dark blue due to the fading.
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Posted 23 February 2015 - 11:43 AM

muscles are really vampires.


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Posted 23 February 2015 - 11:45 AM

This is definitely consistent with sunbleaching. In my experience, red pigments are especially vulnerable, so the red would fade out more than the blue, leaving them just as you desceribed. Most likely they were displayed near a window and just got more sun on the back.


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Posted 23 February 2015 - 02:49 PM

I agree, those just look to be faded.  Faded figures look so ugly and there is nothing you can do to restore them to their original form, but the good news is that they are great candidates to paint!

 

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Posted 23 February 2015 - 05:46 PM

Yes, that is certainly color fading - it happens regularly with nearly all the colors.

 

Funny enough I have very very rarely seen fading on Red or Light Blue figures - the other colors, quite often


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Posted 23 February 2015 - 05:53 PM

Red and light blue figures darken. Like the dark blue and dark purple- they darken mostly....My opine. Most of mine that are off color, are darkened and not faded.....

My experience....flesh, orange, salmon, magenta, green fade the most. While the dark blue, red, and purple, and light blue darken up more than fade.

Who knows....why is there not a UV testing thread???

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Posted 25 February 2015 - 07:12 AM

I have 2 strange magentas. One has the front faded to almost white and the other has gotten darker
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Posted 25 February 2015 - 07:20 AM

I have some like that too.  I have a salmon and a magenta that are damn near white on the fronts and almost perfect on the backsides......


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Posted 25 February 2015 - 12:24 PM

Magenta, Salmon, Green and Orange will all fade pretty much all the way to white.  When I was a kid I used to play with my MUSCLES in the sandbox and there were some figures that got left out there for a couple of years in the sand and the side that was facing up toward the sun got completely whitewashed and the parts that were submerged in sand are not faded.  The Blues, Purple and Red don't have nearly as much of an issue with fading but I've found that they sometimes get discolored.  I wonder if the discoloration has more to do with them coming into contact with some substance that reacts with the plastic or the dye than it does from fading?  For instance, if Blue figures were to be washed in Bleach or Rubbing Alcohol if over time the reaction would begin to change their color?  I'm not a chemist and I have no idea how these things actually interact.  Also worth noting is that I didn't have badly faded Blue, Red, or Purple figures from my childhood sandbox.  So, its possible that there simply were not figures of those colors left in the sandbox but it's also possible that there were figures of those colors left out for a couple of years but that they didn't fade like the lighter colors did.  

 

Another thing I've noticed is that purple figures sometimes get this filmy white coating on them that is (so far as I can tell) impossible to wash off.  It's like the purple turns to a scabby white on the surface but it's not from fading it appears more like some kind of a reaction between the surface of the miniature and the air.  I've encountered like four different copies of this Sunshine figures (all from different lots) and am yet to encounter even one that doesn't have some degree of this white streak across the chest and lower abdomen area and on the back:

 

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I haven't actually figures a way to get it off the surface of the figure yet which is what sort of led me down the road of thinking that the discoloration on the figures that don't tend to fade like the lighter ones might be more of a reaction than straight sun fading.  I'm by no means an expert on this stuff but these are just some observations I've made over the past couple of years collecting MUSCLE figures.  Cheers, Brian.


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Posted 25 February 2015 - 01:02 PM

I have a salmon figure that is "peeling"- it's like a thin layer of film peeling off like a sunburn.

 

Will get a picture of it later and post it here.


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