Mantic’s PVC miniatures (called restic, premium plastic or sprueless plastic by mantic) has gotten a reputation for being hard to work with. I feel that this is not entirely fair and might have something to do with the material being relatively new compared with metal and injection plastic. This is how I do to remove mould lines.
Tools of the trade.
What you need is a sharp hobby knife, and a wire brush. They are often sold in kits of three, one steel, one brass and one nylon. The nylon and the brass one is the ones used for this purpose.
My hands have a really weird colour in this photo. This is what happens when you photograph under fluorescent light.
First of all I use a sharp scalpel to scrape and cut away the mould lines. This goes against common internet wisdom that says that you only can cut it away. I mostly scrape because it is easier and I find that it gives me better control. For some places on a miniature cutting is easier, but in maybe 80% of the time I scrape. Using a file seems to work quite well also, but i prefer scraping with a knife over filing for everything except some parts of metal miniatures. But more on that later.
This doesn’t look that good does it? It is hard to photograph but there is plastic fuzz and a some burr along the removed mould line.
To help with the fuzz we bring in the wire brush! I usually start with the nylon, if that isn’t enough I use the brass one.
And now the fuzz is gone! The brass wire brush is hard enough to remove the fuzz and burr, but soft enough not to damage the details.
Filing then? I decided to try it out on a miniature to see how well it works.
The miniature used in this example is Mee’kel Judwan, a MVP from Dreadball. As you can see the mould lines are very visible. In the folds of the cloak it could be quite hard to remove the mould lines with a scalpel. Here a file is suitable to use.
I use cheap needle/jewelers files from a hardware store. They are a alot cheaper than the stuff you buy in the hobby shop, and are the basically the same.
As you can see the fuzz and burr is even worse when you use a file.
After a quick go with the brushes the fuzz and burr is mostly gone, It seems however that you need to brush more after using the files than scraping with a scalpel.
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I’d only just read about doing this recently, so it’s good to see some pictures. Not sure if I’ll ever get around to cleaning (or playing!) DreadBall, but it’s certainly good to know an easier way to clean the figures.
I only haven’t really had the chance to play dreadball yet, but it seems good. The mould lines on my set wasn’t that bad. I also feel that the orginal Dreadball teams are some of the best and most consistent designs that Mantic has done. It is a shame really that they didn’t do them assembled in coloured plastic instead, would have suited the game better. For me restic is not a terrible material, but then I have never had more than two dreadball teams to clean up at once.