Spa Day 1 - Client: Edward Elric('s Coat)
With a bad case of plastic stickiness (seriously, you could pick the coat up, let go, and it'd stay on your hand), Ed's coat needed help.
Reddit suggested rubbing alcohol and after three gentle-but-thorough applications via cotton-ball the stickiness has gone from, like, 9/10 to 1.5/10.
Apparently the stickiness is from a finish coating that needs to be removed entirely. It didn't harm the color or tampos on the coat but YMMV.
Ed's alternate hands and arms are all fine. Different plastic.
If Ed is not one of the very early Square-Enix Play-Arts figures, he's from whatever became them. At the time he was incredibly affordable, but also well-articulated and, like, those accessories. IIRC he has his spear as well that's still with my FMA stuff.
The line also had Al and Winry, though I'm not sure I still have either. Al was notorious because the front came off his armor except it was nearly impossible to actually remove. I don't think I ever managed to do it.
But seriously, stellar figures. I'm really glad that I was able to fix Ed's coat.
Well, hopefully. If I did manage to remove the entire sticky coating, it should stay clean and I'll be happy. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on him, though.
Basically, the coat was so gross that even if I'd wrecked it, it wouldn't be any worse than it already was. I think it had sat by the sink in the 'get to cleaning this random crap' pile for more years than I want to count.
Maybe when I get all this done I can compile some stuff-cleaning-tips-for-nerds.
Next clients, when I can: Jade and Anise gashapon from Tales of the Abyss.