Post by plasticpanzers on Mar 5, 2018 0:19:43 GMT
I have finally (after 53 years or so working on Naps and ACW) started my WW1 figure painting. HaT French early infantry. I have discovered a new
truth in the universe that I have never come across before in 1000s of figures. If you take a washed and dried French figure and spray it with Tamiya
fine primer and have cats you will end up with 96 fuzzballs. I accidentally dropped the primed figures onto the floor near one of our cats beds. When
recovered they were all covered with hair and that on the heads and rifles was standing on end (no doubt thinking about the next Hun attack). Using
an amazing number of colorful metaphors I carefully defuzzed all 96 (like plucking tiny chickens) and put them on a box to set. When I was done I
looked at the figures I cleaned and they had cat fur all over them, again. (more colorful metaphors ensue). It seems they are charged on the surface
with static electricity and are yanking the tiny hairs straight out of the air. I am actually holding them in my hands and tiny hairs shoot to them and
attach themselves. Amazingly I had not run out of colorful metaphors and for the next half hour defuzzed the class of '96 again. I then covered them
in a sheet of paper and went to bed. Lo and behold when I get up I see the little darlin' more hairs have been sucked under the paper and stuck to the
figures again. With the static charge the hair on their heads stands up like hairy crowns and on the rifles like spikes. ...another half hour later they
are cleaned for a third time, moved, and finished priming them and covered them over. After this bizarre trip into "Fantastic Voyage" (those who
remember) I will be careful to keep the objects from making critical mass in the future.....Vive' la France....meow.
truth in the universe that I have never come across before in 1000s of figures. If you take a washed and dried French figure and spray it with Tamiya
fine primer and have cats you will end up with 96 fuzzballs. I accidentally dropped the primed figures onto the floor near one of our cats beds. When
recovered they were all covered with hair and that on the heads and rifles was standing on end (no doubt thinking about the next Hun attack). Using
an amazing number of colorful metaphors I carefully defuzzed all 96 (like plucking tiny chickens) and put them on a box to set. When I was done I
looked at the figures I cleaned and they had cat fur all over them, again. (more colorful metaphors ensue). It seems they are charged on the surface
with static electricity and are yanking the tiny hairs straight out of the air. I am actually holding them in my hands and tiny hairs shoot to them and
attach themselves. Amazingly I had not run out of colorful metaphors and for the next half hour defuzzed the class of '96 again. I then covered them
in a sheet of paper and went to bed. Lo and behold when I get up I see the little darlin' more hairs have been sucked under the paper and stuck to the
figures again. With the static charge the hair on their heads stands up like hairy crowns and on the rifles like spikes. ...another half hour later they
are cleaned for a third time, moved, and finished priming them and covered them over. After this bizarre trip into "Fantastic Voyage" (those who
remember) I will be careful to keep the objects from making critical mass in the future.....Vive' la France....meow.