Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Hard plastic repair

This poor doll has some obvious problems with her lower leg.
Typical of many plastic dolls, her head, limbs and torso seem to be made from different types of plastic. This might be the result of different batches of plastic being used at the factory to make the parts. Perhaps the different parts were made at different factories and they all had their own recipe for mixing plastic.

Anyhow, this doll's head is a softer plastic and her limbs are a hard plastic.







The first thing I do is stabilize the remaining plastic bits by spreading an epoxy paste inside over all the cracks.












And then the missing bits get slowly reconstructed with layers of epoxy paste over a mesh base.












It is a really slow process.
Each new layer has to dry 24+ hours.













Well, she looks better?

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