Battlemap Stain

[Dieter]

Ack...reds, yellows, oranges are the deathknell of an vinyl map. For some strange reason, any of those colors (as opposed to more conceivable darker colors?) have an adverse effect on them.

The border of my friend's map from many, many years ago still has written (in red)

"Ryan Davis is a tool"

Interesting that good ole JB will do the trick. Personally, I ONLY use VaV black, blue, or green on my Chessex map.

 

[Ayrk]

Whenever we had a perm marker stain on our whiteboard, we found if you totally color over the stain with a regular eraseable marker, it will remove the perm marker.

As for a battlemat, we tried acetone once (on the phallus of doom, don't ask) and it took off the stain, and the coloring, and the hex lines. Test on a small corner first.

Hope that helps in some way.

 

[Bavix]

Actually, Murphy's Oil Soap has saved my mat a few times. That stuff will take the boils off of a leper's butt. I use it to clean my white art table after airbrushing, painting, etc and it never has harmed the finish on anything I've used it on.

This is an unsolicited testimony

 

[Zhure]

I recommend using coca-cola. Scotch also works well. If neither works, you've still got a nice drink going.
Greg

 

[KnowTheToe]

I also have problems with Vis-A-Vis® markers. What markers do you guys use?


This will only be a temporary hi-jack of your thread

 

[discjacker]

This reminds me to go clean off my map from two weeks ago. Thanks

 

[Umbran]

I also have problems with Vis-A-Vis® markers. What markers do you guys use?

Actually, it isn't the fact that they are Vis-A-Vis® markers. Any red wet-erase marker does the same thing to vinyl. All the manufacturerswarn against red markers (and against leaving marker on the mat for long periods, whatever the color), and if there were a common red that didn't, they'd plaster the fact all over their web-pages, I'm sure.

 

[Scooby]

Thanks for all the help. I'll let you know if any of these suggestions work. My marker was blue.

 

[KnowTheToe]

My blue marker left a mark just after a few hours. My red one exploded in one of the players hands. Hhehehehee, it made me giggle.

 

[Drew]

Any luck?