Warning about packing models

[cyberkid]

I have been recently moving and had thought I had found a great way to pack models without harming them.
My method was
1 get a display box that would hold the model
2 wrap Stretch wrap (something like this)with the model sat tight on the bottom of the display tray
3. close display box and wrap that.
Once I had done all this it seemed perfect, even with me shaking it like a tambourine the model didn't budge and wasn't harmed.

About a week later, arriving at my new house, my GF's nephew asked to see some of my completed models... So, happy as can be.. I started to unwrap one of my models... To my dismay the stretch wrap had eaten into the (I'm guessing about the materials here) clear acrylic display cover, getting worried I contiued to unwrap the model. At this point I was near tears... The wrap had eaten into the clear plastic (which I only had 1 coat of wax on). The rest of the model was protected, I'm guessing, for the 2 or 3 coats of wax...
The next model I unwrap hadn't been waxed at all (99% completed) and the wrap ate every part it touched. Now I'm not sure if the first model was ok due to it being painted with automotive colors and the second one destroyed due to using modeling lacquer (Gunze & Tamiya).

I just hope that this mishap can help others in the future.

[freakray]

What kind of wrap were you using?

[Enzoenvy1]

Originally Posted by freakray

What kind of wrap were you using?

No joke, is it acid based or what?! I cannot even think of a product that would do that?!

[rsxse240]

bubble wrap will do the same thing. I ALWAYS wrap my stuff in a cloth, or stuff it in a plastic bag that the model parts came in inside the box.

[cyberkid]

Originally Posted by freakray

What kind of wrap were you using?

Industrial use packing wrap used in securing boxes or whatever on pallets. I had bought a few rolls of this wrap off Yahoo auction to wrap cabinets and what-not that I had disassembled. As of what the wrap is made of I don't know yet. I have written the seller asking them what exactly it is made of.

This worked well with the cabinets and everything else except for the models, a mouse, and a mouse tablet (drawing tablet).

[freakray]

Industrial stretch wrap is definitely the wrong direction - the stuff is nasty.

[gionc]

Originally Posted by freakray

Industrial stretch wrap is definitely the wrong direction - the stuff is nasty.

Also home srink wrap seems do the same, I spoken a couple days ago with my friend and AF member Ricky since I had a tape reaction masking 2k clear and he said that the srink wrap leave signs on his cleared (duplicolor) body, after a couple weeks of curing.

[Captain Mark]

I used to store my finished parts in small plastic zip-lock bags, until I realised they were eating into the paint. If I recall correctly, isn't plastic petroleum based... perhaps that has something to do with it eating into paint.

Sorry you learnt the hard way like a few of us others here.

[drunken monkey]

that's why archive grade storage for documents costs so much more than shrink wrap and cling film.

[manu80]

I tried that on a kit to help masking faster the rest of the body. It stayed on the kit maybe 4 or 5 hours, when i removed it, my paint under it seemed it'd been cut off with a thin knife eveywhere.... really uncool. I used Kitchen wrap. But that was the 1st and only time.When I movd 3 months ago I decided to be just cautious, bout all the car in boxes in different cases as I have a lot of resin, it weights heavy enoughnot to move a lot and crash every where. SO I put them in my car and drove quite carefully (hard in paris when you have some bumps and bad roads , but the new house was like 5 minutes to the old one, 3 trips and it was done. And only 2 kits were damaged, a rera wing from my mazda MXR101 and 2 mirrors from mercedes CLR. So lucky but I took the chance. I could have ruin everything.
You can also take a big part of polystyrene , put the kits on it, and put toothpicks in it, very close to kit to prevent him from moving. TO transport some kits to some places etc, I've done that and it works too.

[speedphreak]

I did the samw thing stated by manu80! I can't beleive I wanted to mask with plasticwrap!!! What was I thinking!? lol..It ate right through the paint and ruined the job! This was so long ago, I wasn't even aware of stripping so I just pitched it. I later found another Mazdaspeed RX-7..hehe

-Chris

[tigeraid]

Well I'm glad someone else spoke up about the problems with various wrapping materials--the last post I made about packing models, I mentioned that bubble wrap and similar wrappings can damage the paint finish and a couple of guys took me to task claiming it was BS--it sure isn't!

[cyberkid]

The seller has replied and said "It's made of PVC plastic".
After a quick check on Wikipedia I found out that PVC stands for Polyvinyl chloride. Funny thing, 90% of plastic plumming materials are made of PVC and I've never noticed this reaction before.

I'm just pissed because one of the models damaged (The one that wasn't waxed) was an OOP RAV4 made by Heller that Hiroboy helped me acquire. The other was a Porsche Carrera Gt which I have 2 more unbluit, so that's replacable without difficulty.

The bummer is that the paint can be saved but I'm not so sure about the clear parts. They have been 'etched' very deep.