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- Aug 29, 2020
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My tail-less Sunbeam arrived! Phase one: scrubbing the heck out of her. First was washing up liquid with a cloth and toothbrush, then generic cleaning wipes (no bleach), and then melamine foam sponge to sand off the top layer of grime/marker marks/finger oils/etc.. Also, I trimmed the flashing around her neck joint after I took the after pics, and currently she's soaking in an Oxy-Clean bath.
Before:
Phase 1:
The worst of the grime is gone, tho the red on the bottom lip left a stain that will probably need spot creme to remove. You can see from the close-up of her neck joint that she's yellowed from the fire-retardant oxydising the vinyl over time, and so until I can actually give her a peroxide bath, this is probably as blue as she'll get for now. Also, hoping those grey spots aren't mould, but just discolouring from the washer that was loose inside the body. I have a lot of Darci bodies that have these marks, but most of those are from Kenner recycling vinyl.
Phase 2 will be trying to remove ground in dirt from her hooves, touching up her screening, and giving her a new tail with matching nylon hair.
Then the very last thing (Phase 3) will be repainting her almost entirely gone glitter sun cutie mark.
Before:
Phase 1:
The worst of the grime is gone, tho the red on the bottom lip left a stain that will probably need spot creme to remove. You can see from the close-up of her neck joint that she's yellowed from the fire-retardant oxydising the vinyl over time, and so until I can actually give her a peroxide bath, this is probably as blue as she'll get for now. Also, hoping those grey spots aren't mould, but just discolouring from the washer that was loose inside the body. I have a lot of Darci bodies that have these marks, but most of those are from Kenner recycling vinyl.
Phase 2 will be trying to remove ground in dirt from her hooves, touching up her screening, and giving her a new tail with matching nylon hair.
Then the very last thing (Phase 3) will be repainting her almost entirely gone glitter sun cutie mark.