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how do you take care of your joes?

05-10-2007, 03:27 PM	#1
lehsreh G.I. Smurf Offline --> Posts: 3,446 --> Join Date: Jan 2006	how do you take care of your joes? im going through my joes here and see a lot of dust. this got me wondering how in the heck do you guys take such good care of yours? i keep mine in a plastic store case, but i do get them a lot and look at them and think of customs and stuff. i have some set up as a dio on the top shelf of my desk, so what are you doing that i am not? do you store yours and only take them out at pic time, if so there still gonna get some dirt. so im asking, what or how or whatever, do you clean yours with to make them look so shiny and new?

05-10-2007, 03:40 PM	#2
General Scarlett Hell hath no fury.... Offline --> Posts: 7,646 --> Join Date: Dec 2006	Spit on 'em and use your shirt!!! __________________ Non illigitamus carborundum~Vos mos non effrego mihi Coming soon: 'JoeSpecialOps'

05-10-2007, 03:44 PM

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Spit on 'em and use your shirt!!!

lol, really. ive done that too. another thing to add, has anyone ever thought or tried adding a layer of clear coat to your old figures? i had given it thought once, to preserve them better, but thought it would just junk them up to much

05-10-2007, 04:33 PM	#4
Blowtorch Banned Offline --> Posts: 962 --> Join Date: Nov 2005	Well I've never spit on them. I've heard of people using clear coat, but haven't done that. I use soap and water with a tooth brush. Kinda simple. Last edited by Blowtorch : 05-10-2007 at 08:04 PM.

05-10-2007, 05:17 PM	#5
Ruki Ren93 Inside,We're ALL JoeFan21 Offline --> Posts: 591 --> Join Date: Dec 2006	Distilled water with a horsehair paintbrush. Can't let anything else touch em!!

05-10-2007, 05:25 PM	#6
maxtype Veteran Offline --> Posts: 392 --> Join Date: Mar 2007	I dust mine with a nylon paintbrush.............1/2 inch wide........

05-10-2007, 06:37 PM	#7
gung ho sexually frustrated Offline --> Posts: 1,821 --> Join Date: May 2006	my joes haven't got dust on them my vehicles however lol they do but i don't mind __________________ "For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced: for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was peace."

05-10-2007, 07:09 PM	#8
Outrider It's been a great ride! Offline --> Posts: 14,302 --> Join Date: Jun 2005	All my figures are stored with their accessories in ziplock bags, which are in turn stored in plastic storage boxes, about 60 or 70 figures to a box, so they never get dusty. My vehicles, however are stored in the built in robe in the spare bedroom, and they get covered in dust even though the doors are kept closed. If it's real bad, I brush it off with a 2cm soft paint brush before I use 'em for pics. If they only have a light coating, I tend to leave it as it helps to make them look weathered and gritty, which I like. __________________ "The future's uncertain and the end is always near." - The Doors "Roadhouse Blues".

05-10-2007, 09:08 PM	#9
Sonneilon aka 'Paul WS Anderson' ;) Offline --> Posts: 7,751 --> Join Date: Jul 2005	You want the truth? My Cobras are literally thrown in a cardboard box and my Joes are in a plastic tub. Vehicles are around the house, hiding. The Jungle Strike Force customs were in a separate bag but now are in a dio case so they won't get dusty. At one time, I did display my Vipers and NeoVipers but I needed the space for other things. If they get dusty, I'll blow or use a rag.

05-11-2007, 09:19 AM	#10
General Jones Veteran Offline --> Posts: 345 --> Join Date: Jan 2007	I store mine is some lack leather zipper bags by year(OCD). That'll keep them clean enough for me. __________________ Chuck Norris doesn't Tea Bag. He Potato Sacks.