Hey Woodsie,
I'm cleaning up on my life of boxed away treasures.
I found this bunch of early 1980s Buck Rogers figures in a sealed ziplok bag, away from the light. Despite the good storage conditions, Mego's dreaded plastics choices have struck anyway! One Buck is still in original condition, but the other looks like he's wearing a Star Trek TMP uniform! And the part of Wilma Deering will be performed tonight by Pocahontas!
The tiny Twiki is from the Mego line, but I may have burnished him with graphite powder to get a more metallic effect. The Mego Moult has turned him antique gold!
The large windup has a Robert C Dille copyright, but no maker's name.
The two soft vinyl Twikis are a mystery, they may be bootlegs.
Do you have any Mego toys with "Mego Moult" Moonbasers?
Looey
Oz Base
Apparently if you put Yellow Buck in a jar with some peroxide, the chemical will leach away the colour and bring him back to Daz whiteness! See here for similar:
ReplyDeletehttps://forum.rebelscum.com/threads/hydrogen-peroxide-whitening-as-we-speak.1031741/page-5
Golly, Anonymous this is a great tip! The website was full of Chemistbabble, but scrolling down I found the English language version! I'm off on Monday to my local Pharmacy to get some of that goop -Boots is a bit too far for me!
DeleteI also found the link for curing Mego Moult grey faces (I recall seeing this previously) Now I wish I hadn't got rid of my Mego Moonraker Bond and Jaws figures!
BTW Anonymous, is your secret identity really Bill?