{"id":12708,"date":"2013-07-02T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2013-07-02T00:21:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T04:21:40","slug":"the-essential-tools-of-action-figure-collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/the-essential-tools-of-action-figure-collecting\/","title":{"rendered":"The essential tools of action figure collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was thinking about what tools one should really have handy if they're hardcore action figure collectors. Things you always need handy to deal with the daily things that happen to figures. Obviously things like bins for storage and Detolfs or some type of other display cabinet. But then there are those little essentials to keep everything as it should be:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Super glue. Absolutely necessary for when something breaks, obviously. I personally use a Loc-Tite gel control thingy. works pretty good and is really easy to dispense. Nothing's worse than having super glue get everywhere, on your hands, or worse all over your broken figure.<\/li>\n<li>Acrylic based paints in various colors. For touching up of minor scuffs and paint scrapes. I find enamel never quite bonds with action figure plastic right, so acrylics seem to be best. I try to buy Tamiya paints, or Testors acrylic.<\/li>\n<li>Sharpie markers. Same principle as the acrylics, but typically for smaller areas. Metallics (gold & silver) are particularly important.<\/li>\n<li>WD-40 pen. Works like Goo-Gone, but not as abrasive and much easier to control. Gets rid of marks and dirt on figures pretty nicely. But don't overdo it, you can still take off the factory paint if you get too heavy with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are the ones that pop into my head, but if you can think of any others, let's hear 'em! Also, if you have better alternatives on what you use (types of glue, paint) let's hear them as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was thinking about what tools one should really have handy if they're hardcore action figure collectors. Things you always need handy to deal with the daily things that happen to figures. Obviously things like bins for storage and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/the-essential-tools-of-action-figure-collecting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12712,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}