Original scan:
![Image](http://www.jcaliff.net/cels/smoon/seiyacel.jpg)
Scan from today:
![Image](http://www.jcaliff.net/share/cels/seiya_shower_compare.jpg)
So frustrating.
![Bawling :bawl](./images/smilies/bawling.gif)
![Neutral :-|](./images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif)
Sui Kune wrote:Out of curiosity, did you notice any vinegar smell when you pulled it out? I noticed with my Hotaru cels with accelerated line fading, they tend to also have Vinegar Syndrome. From Sensei's advice, I bought a bunch of Microchamber paper from Bags Unlimited and put one in the front of the cel bag of each one I've noticed the smell. While it sucks that there's really nothing more we can do besides perhaps eventually commissioning new trace line layers, having those Microchamber papers in there gives me the piece of mind that there's something in there at least slowing it down.
Question. I have the vague recollection that Toei xeroxed the trace lines directly onto the cel (and then painted it on the underside)...jcaliff wrote: I don't really notice any strong smells.
Fortunately, I do have the douga, and I've considered how difficult it might be to use that to trace new lines on a new layer. But for now, I'm just going to leave it.
I don't have any unusual way: they'e in Itoyas, set upright like books on a shelf. Polypro cel bags, not sealed and typically slit or clipped on one side to allow air to escape.Keropi wrote:How do you store your cels again Sensei? I've forgotten what you said previously about how you store them.
That's correct. From the 1960s on most studios used a modified photocopy machine to print an image of the douga (flipped of course) on the backside of the cel. The pigment was powdered carbon plus some kind of plasticizer (various companies had different formulas) that melted under heat and sealed the carbon against the acetate. (This is why a healthy cel smells just like a sheet of paper that's just come out of the copy machine ... same stuff.)pixie_princess wrote: Question. I have the vague recollection that Toei xeroxed the trace lines directly onto the cel (and then painted it on the underside)...