Over the last few weeks I have been spending a bit of Christmas money on eBay, picking up the kind of cheap plastic figures you don’t normally see in UK toy stores. A few pounds here and there.
Being either new-ish secondhand or sometimes a whole chocolate tin of mixed figures, the scrapings of someone else’s toy box with some tantalising glimpses of unusual figures, they all need a good wash before painting. It should remove any grime and mould release chemicals.
With so many figures, the sink wasn’t an option so the bath tub stood in this time.
Here was the washing up bowl ‘spa treatment’ I did last time, back in June 2016:
https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/17/spa-treatments-for-toy-soldiers/
To dry so many, I rigged up an old beach toy net (commonly used for storing bath toys) and they all drip dried pretty quickly.
Next job is sorting them all out … an exciting mixture of modern plastic 40 to 54mm soldiers, pirates, redcoats, ninjas, fantasy figures male and female – and skeletons which sank.
I shall post photos of each group in the next few posts.
Blogposted by Mark Man of TIN on 2 February 2018.
Pound Store Plastic Warriors 