Living in Bellingham, Wa, not far from the Canadian border, it doesn't usually get hot here. We'd be lucky if hit 90, the average summer 'heat' is around 80. These last few days, it's been 85+. Yesterday, we spent all afternoon shoveling, wheelbarreling and distributing pea gravel to our backyard. (You'll even see it when Scrap Iron makes his appearance)

So today, I was out shooting a couple of 'short' sequences for the dio and man, I could've sworn my stuff was gonna melt in the sun. The NeoVipers seemed to be doing ok due to the harder plastic H was using in 2002, but the DTC Blueshirt got really rubbery feeling. Their helmets were able to be squished much more than usual! Sure, plastic will soften in the sun/heat, but out there, it was crazy. I ended up putting a lot of the guys in the shade when trying to set up.

And the worst part other than sweating the whole time? My flaming Vipers kept on falling down from heat exhaustion! I had them ALL set up and was just moving to get the camera when 1 fell and another 15 went with him. You can imagine my patience level went down real fast. Anyway, I got the shots off, the figures didn't melt and we'll find out if the chip in the camera melted!

Anyone else trying to shoot in hot weather and noticing the same effect?