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  • spiderman67
    Museum Super Collector
    • Jan 28, 2010
    • 215

    De-greying heads

    Was curious about the degreying process with the plasti-dip.The local Home Depot only has it in black or white.I am wanting to try and degrey a human torch head.Will the color of the plasti-dip have any affect on the head?
    Take two mego's and call me in the morning.
  • spiderman67
    Museum Super Collector
    • Jan 28, 2010
    • 215

    #2
    Reason for this question is that in the tutorial,red is used.May be a silly question but I just want to make sure I make no mistakes.
    Take two mego's and call me in the morning.

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    • MegoCapnMike
      Veteran Member
      • Feb 22, 2012
      • 384

      #3
      Actually I used this for a mask making project for a mego figure. Same thing though, plasti-dip on a mego head, just not for de-graying. Anyway, the dip worked great for my purposes and did not damage the original head that I used in any way. I will say be careful if you cut the dip off. My project had to be very precise and I could not use the tire spray because of what I needed the end result for. The only damage to the original that occurred was from my cutting the dip off of the head which wasn't a huge deal because it was a beater head anyway. So just be careful there if trying to preserve the head. It will not change the color or anything though. At least not in my experience.
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      --Lion Rock "Mr Rock's" shoes/ boots (these may also be the same as the lion rock monster line boots)

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      • ignignokt
        Museum Super Collector
        • Mar 3, 2014
        • 151

        #4
        You'll want to use red. From my limited experience I've discovered that the dye from the plasti dip is transferred to the head. Black and white are the worst colors to use on a grey head. You might also want to try the marker method. You take a q-tip and color the tip slightly with the marker and dip it in rubbing alcohol and then rub it over the grey with it. It's cheaper and faster.
        We're going to sodomize our vast imaginations with this pornography. -Ignignokt

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        • josephcardone
          Persistent Member
          • Jun 10, 2010
          • 1046

          #5
          The red works great - make sure you use the tire spray and it is dripping off

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          • MegoCapnMike
            Veteran Member
            • Feb 22, 2012
            • 384

            #6
            I'll add that the head I used was not gray at all. So maybe that makes all the difference the others spoke up about.
            Looking for:

            --Lion Rock "Mr Rock's" shoes/ boots (these may also be the same as the lion rock monster line boots)

            --Mystery Astronaught

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            • megojim
              Permanent Member
              • Oct 13, 2001
              • 3630

              #7
              makes no difference as to what color is used . . . it's not the color that "degrays" it's the gases in the plasti-dip
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              • ignignokt
                Museum Super Collector
                • Mar 3, 2014
                • 151

                #8
                Originally posted by megojim
                makes no difference as to what color is used . . . it's not the color that "degrays" it's the gases in the plasti-dip

                I thought that as well and wasted $20 on white and black plastidip. The head had a nice glisten to it from the process, but it was still grey with only one small area showing any sign of recovery. I then managed to find some red and it worked after only two attempts. I then contacted the creators of the technique (Amegos Three) and here's what they had to say:

                "I'm not 100% sure if the color matters. I've personally only used red. However, from the feedback that I've received, I believe that red, yellow and white work best (in that order) and that black, blue and green work the least. I know that the biggest factor I've had in getting the process to work is the amount of time that the head is encased in the plastidip shell and the number of applications used. There's also the possibility that plastidip has changed their formula since I first started doing this over 15 years ago. If you try again, please let me know how it works out! I receive a fair number of emails asking me questions like yours and I've learned a lot from other collectors' experiences! Good luck!"

                Another reason I believe some of the dye is being transfered is because I had a Superman head I applied red plastidip to using their method. After two attempts it still had too light of a skin tone, so I went with a third attempt and now he looks like he's been hanging out in a red sun too long without sun screen. I did not think that could happen. Also, I have a Kid Flash that has now turned orange from using the red plastidip (should have used yellow, but I was assuming at the time that the dye wasn't being transfered).
                We're going to sodomize our vast imaginations with this pornography. -Ignignokt

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                • KOMonger
                  Banned
                  • Feb 17, 2015
                  • 267

                  #9
                  Consensus: The grey returns? There are several threads on the Plasti-Dip method of restoring grey heads.

                  Is the consensus that the grey simply returns after a few years? I won't bother if this is the case. Any of you who have tried this years ago check on your figures lately?

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                  • Steeler80
                    Mayor of Strunk
                    • Jun 29, 2001
                    • 5684

                    #10
                    Though it's been a long time since my last attempt, I never had much luck with the method. I noticed some de-greying but not all that much. I sold that figure, so I can't address if they grey again.

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                    • Emgee
                      Member
                      • May 5, 2009
                      • 89

                      #11
                      I tried the process maybe ten or twelve years or so back when forums began to put the whole Plasti-Dip/grey thing out there. Used it on the usual suspects MOONRAKER, STTMP etc and with red Plasti-Dip worked pretty good but over the years it has faded and gone back to grey. Doesn't seem a permanent fix.

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                      • generic
                        Persistent Member
                        • Jun 25, 2009
                        • 1237

                        #12
                        As the guy who posted the instructions and photos (1/3 of The 3 A-Megos), I can tell you that the process is not 100% permanent. The heads do turn grey again.

                        For the 12" figures in particular, I've had many reports of some of the original paint being removed through the process (especially eyebrows on Trek and Black Hole guys). I had that problem a tiny bit with a Mr. Fantastic that I De-greyed myself.

                        As for the color of the plastidip, as mentioned above, I have only used red myself. However, although reports have varied, far more people have told me that the color of the plastidip affects the end results than have told me that the color doesn't affect the end results.

                        The photos that you see of the Bo Duke head being De-Greyed were taken at my old house. I moved out of that house in 2000, so the plasti-dip that I used was from about two decades ago. There very well may have been changes over the years in the ingredients, but I continue to receive reports and questions from Mego De-Greyers, so I have been kept pretty much in the loop.

                        The other question that I'm often asked is why we stopped updating the 3 A-Megos website. When we first started the site in 2000, there were a lot of things missing from the Mego Museum. We were trying to post photos and information about all of the figures in all scales because at the sime, some of that wasn't available on the Mego Museum. In 2002, 2003, & 2004, I was extremely busy with non-toy stuff. By the time I got back into it, the Mego Museum had added so much information that there really wasn't much need for our website anymore...plus by then, having an Angelfire website was pretty lame !
                        Nostalgia just ain’t what it used to be.

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                        • KOMonger
                          Banned
                          • Feb 17, 2015
                          • 267

                          #13
                          Good information, everyone!

                          2000 and angelfire websites. I remember the free websites. Everybody was offering them, and everybody was trying them. All the celebrity fan shrines, superhero pages, embedded low-res rm files. Animated gifs. Remember that hamster character?
                          Wow, memories.

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                          • megozilla13
                            Persistent Member
                            • May 10, 2002
                            • 1701

                            #14
                            From everything I've read throughout the years of people trying it, it seems red and yellow are the colors of plastidip that work. Some have said recently that the plasti dip formula has changed and the technique doesn't work at all now. I don't know if that's true. The purpose of the tirewet is to keep the plasti dip from ripping off the head paint although sometimes it's not very good at doing that. The technique will still work without the tire wet but the eye and hair paint will definitely come off when removing the dried plasti dip. Any silicone based spray should do the same job. Some heads do get grey again after a few years and others do not. The original robin head this was discovered on over 15 years ago has no signs of grey yet. Lastly, ok I'll say it, it's kinda always bothered me a little bit that the 3 AMegos seemed to take credit for the degreying technique when it wasn't them who came up with it and shared it. just saying :-)

                            mikej
                            WANTED: Removable Mask ROBIN on Kresge style card

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                            • Blue Meanie
                              Banned
                              • Jun 23, 2001
                              • 8706

                              #15
                              Originally posted by megozilla13
                              From everything I've read throughout the years of people trying it, it seems red and yellow are the colors of plastidip that work. Some have said recently that the plasti dip formula has changed and the technique doesn't work at all now. I don't know if that's true. The purpose of the tirewet is to keep the plasti dip from ripping off the head paint although sometimes it's not very good at doing that. The technique will still work without the tire wet but the eye and hair paint will definitely come off when removing the dried plasti dip. Any silicone based spray should do the same job. Some heads do get grey again after a few years and others do not. The original robin head this was discovered on over 15 years ago has no signs of grey yet. Lastly, ok I'll say it, it's kinda always bothered me a little bit that the 3 AMegos seemed to take credit for the degreying technique when it wasn't them who came up with it and shared it. just saying :-)

                              mikej
                              I never knew this was your genius until you corrected me on either facebook or here. I think everyone should know. Trust me...everytime I get the chance I let people know that the 9 inch Flash Gordon that was shrunk and molded/cast by Doc and a few others was mine that I had done and wanted to get into the hands of the customizers. Take a bow is what I'd like to say...Take a bow Mike

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