Sooo I had put my Nacelle on the shelf and hadn’t touched it for about a month after I had bought it and fiddled around with it for a bit on that day. I remembered the day I got it (part of my present for my 40th!
) and that I went on here to brag about how my copy didn’t have any mold/plastic jizz/whatever the hell that white webby stuff was. I usually keep my TFs in a smoke-free, pet-free, regular-levels-of-temp-and-humidity home. I also live in a decently dry climate that is Colorado.
Anyway, I was craving fiddling with my Nacelle once again just today and picked him up…. Only to now find bits of the white webby stuff on it.
I’m usually very OCD about the conditions of my figures and notice every little paint scuff right out of the package and while handling them, let alone creatures living on them. So I would have noticed mold or whatever else on the thing when I bought it. Especially when it seemed to be so many people’s experiences. But there was none on mine when I took it out of its package. And now, a month and a half later, there was.
It’s mold, y’all.
Only mold can seemingly spontaneously grow on a surface that it seemingly wasn’t on prior. And I definitely didn’t cut my Nacelle out of a industrial plastic-forming machine between now and when I bought it about a month ago.
For some reason, either the type of plastic that makes up Nacelle’s wings is an accidentally susceptible substrate for this type of mold type that’s environmentally endemic, or the specific place the entire batch of Nacelles were made in has a mold infestation throughout its entire production line. And if the latter, just because you’ve received one w/o the stuff initially doesn’t necessarily mean the spores still aren’t attached onto the wings, albeit dormant and invisible to hatch a little later.
Anyway, I recommend whoever’s got one wipe down its wings with some sort of cleaning solution just in case. I used alcohol wipes on mine. Cus even though you might not see anything, there’s a high chance that it’s there and waiting to hatch…
) and that I went on here to brag about how my copy didn’t have any mold/plastic jizz/whatever the hell that white webby stuff was. I usually keep my TFs in a smoke-free, pet-free, regular-levels-of-temp-and-humidity home. I also live in a decently dry climate that is Colorado.Anyway, I was craving fiddling with my Nacelle once again just today and picked him up…. Only to now find bits of the white webby stuff on it.
I’m usually very OCD about the conditions of my figures and notice every little paint scuff right out of the package and while handling them, let alone creatures living on them. So I would have noticed mold or whatever else on the thing when I bought it. Especially when it seemed to be so many people’s experiences. But there was none on mine when I took it out of its package. And now, a month and a half later, there was.
It’s mold, y’all.
Only mold can seemingly spontaneously grow on a surface that it seemingly wasn’t on prior. And I definitely didn’t cut my Nacelle out of a industrial plastic-forming machine between now and when I bought it about a month ago.
For some reason, either the type of plastic that makes up Nacelle’s wings is an accidentally susceptible substrate for this type of mold type that’s environmentally endemic, or the specific place the entire batch of Nacelles were made in has a mold infestation throughout its entire production line. And if the latter, just because you’ve received one w/o the stuff initially doesn’t necessarily mean the spores still aren’t attached onto the wings, albeit dormant and invisible to hatch a little later.
Anyway, I recommend whoever’s got one wipe down its wings with some sort of cleaning solution just in case. I used alcohol wipes on mine. Cus even though you might not see anything, there’s a high chance that it’s there and waiting to hatch…
