GuntahKela

A New hope: Last night, I was wet-sanding my armor calfs and shins. They had some stains lighter fuel wouldn't remove, plus one shin got some deep scrapes from a fall I took when I tripped on a parked bike. It took 2 bikers to scoop me off the ground. I wet-sanded the scrapes and buffed and polished the shin back to glossy. I'm fortunate to have a HIPS armor that is very, very thick. About 1/8" I also did the same with the yellowish edges. All it took was a wet-sanding job to remove them. Then, I though: what if the yellow is ALSO sitting on top of the white in my back plate and belt, just like it was seating in the edges I just wet-sanded back to white? So, I did a test. I wet-sanded a spot of the back plate. What do you know? White underneath! So, what I have to do is wet-sand the WHOLE back plate and buff/polish it back to gloss. Because of the back's details, I'm going to dread wet-sanding around the gear part and the 2 rectangles. Hopefully, wire wool will help. I'm glad I figured this out. I DIDN'T really want to paint it. Paint scratches, chips, gets dirty, scrapes and only gets worst when more paint is thrown to hide the damages. I'm taking pics of the process. I though I was just going to fix-up the armor for Halloween weekend, but I'm going all out to actually RESTORE it. I'm undoing all the rivets to have better wet-sanding/polishing reach on all pieces. I'm very positive about the results. I will blog about my process once I'm done. Will post quick updates here, of course.

Ah-HA! I knew I've heard of something like this. I saw some forum posts on how people are restoring old transformers toys with these sorts of bleaches. Will try this thing and let you all know how it went. This is going to be my own Mythbuster episode.

I've had my HIPS TK armor for, about 8 years, now. I've been turning a blind eye to the yellowing parts, although I keep the armor inside a tub, in my closet. No light. I only get the armor out for when trooping. The odd thing about the yellowing is that my chest piece seems fine, but the back place has been the most affected. Same goes for my back waist belt and most edges. Since I'm going to restore a lot of the pieces, I figured I'd restore the white, too. Has anyone dealt with this issue, and can recommend one of the many solutions found on the web? I read something about dipping the parts in a bucket of bleach and water. Maybe, there is a product that does this? Pic added. You can see the yellowing on the backplate compared to the shoulder straps, which are vac-formed off the same material:

Could I get it? I've been in the 501st for 8 years, but never signed-up with the main-MAIN forum.