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Victor Gazanchidis, 04.12.2010 16:03

Dear friends! The season of unpacking is underway. I suggest that in this topic I share my "secrets" and not so much about the restoration of valuable collector's items. With the gluing of antennae, wings, etc., everything is more or less clear, although there may be nuances here. Personally, I am very interested in whether there are any techniques for tinting places that are erased to transparency, gluing holes in the wings from the underside of the underside, carefully gluing torn parts of the wings, and so on.
I would also use the services of specialists in this field.

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04.12.2010 16:17, rhopalocera.com

this is already a falsification of the material. you never know from whom you will stick something there, and then guess what kind of mutant is in your hands

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04.12.2010 16:33, Alexandr Zhakov

I have a friend in full Parnassus restores, glues the antennae, heads, bellies, from mnemosyne and nordmanov to Asian, eaten. One hope is that they will be eaten again, and they will not fall into the hands of anyone serious.
Restoring in this way is like writing a label from the ceiling. or add the missing ones.

04.12.2010 16:51, Victor Gazanchidis

No, I also had cases against the mutant factory

in mind, such as these - I have a female morpho Elena with a hole somewhere 2 by 2 mm in the wing, this same piece of wing is also there. How do I attach it? The butterfly is valuable, it's a pity.

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04.12.2010 19:45, captolabrus

try to glue on the back side of the PVA and a thin film.

04.12.2010 20:02, Victor Gazanchidis

try to glue on the back side of the PVA and a thin film.

Can I tell you more? What is the best film to use? The technology of gluing itself - first, sticking a piece of film on the back to seal the hole, and then on the front side to glue the missing piece?

04.12.2010 20:26, captolabrus

I used a transparent film from flower bags. Glued both the moment and PVA, but the moment can permeate the wing and change the color, it will be noticeable from the outside. I think it will be easier to glue a piece of wing to the film, and then put the film with the piece on the wing as a puzzle. The film can be cut off slightly more than a hole. PVA needs to be thick, otherwise it will roll down the film very much. Or perhaps instead of a film, a dense tracing paper. Accuracy and patience will be needed.

04.12.2010 20:33, Victor Gazanchidis

Thank you, I will try, only special glue for insects I will probably use.

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04.12.2010 20:36, captolabrus

I used hercules. It was perhaps most satisfying to the tasks assigned to it.

04.12.2010 20:37, Alexandr Rusinov

Try tissue paper. Perhaps it will hold on to the PVA better than the film.

28.01.2011 13:44, Seneka

I was familiar with one collector-designer from Barnaul, who sold collages, pasting wings, and from different types or from paper, etc. bullshit. Believe me, this is not scientific, useless, immoral and reprehensible. Don't do that. The collection is made not for beauty, but for science. It is better to stick the broken part on a piece of paper and pin it on a pin with a sample.

29.01.2011 0:22, captolabrus

Let me disagree with you! If it is possible to glue the tendril ,foot or part of the wing, then why not? I mean the broken off part is native, and not from other instances. This will allow the collection to stay in an aesthetic form, otherwise you can put some labels with genitals in piles and store them in salad boxes. In

my opinion, the insect is simply beautiful and it is its beauty that is often the root cause and basis for the emergence of scientific interest, taxonomy and pedantic study of the selected group. So, it's not a crime to stick a broken spare part in place, and the work is no less painstaking than everything else.

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29.01.2011 11:31, Victor Gazanchidis

Friends, I forgot to write down how my story ended. After much thought, I gave the butterfly to repair one professional dealer, k-rogo here many people know. And here's what happened. I remind you that almost a quarter of the lower right wing was crushed into small pieces. He assembled them ( all the pieces are NATIVE) on glue even without a base. Judge for yourself whether this jewelry work caused damage to science, or not, but aesthetics definitely won, and it's nice.

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29.01.2011 21:15, captolabrus

That's where the saying comes to mind and sheep in the sky and wolves surfaced

And how much positive, and science is happy and the eye rejoices! Keep it up !

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30.01.2011 12:18, introvert

Small defects I remove tinted black, yellow, etc.PVA glue. I use gouache for this, I spread it in glue. I touch up the head of the pin.
Whiteflies often turn yellow from fat. Especially the lower wings. Yellowness is well removed by ammonia. With a syringe, hold a drop of h w needle within the spot for 1-2 minutes, then suck it out with a plunger, repeat.

30.01.2011 12:38, vasiliy-feoktistov

Here's an example: Troides helena pozhrataya found.. How to make it look divine? I'm heartbroken.

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30.01.2011 14:05, introvert

You can re-soak it. Raise the lower wings. Defects will be closed.

30.01.2011 14:32, Bad Den

Yellowness is well removed by ammonia.

Ammonia, by the way, itself turns butterflies yellow quite well, especially if you prick it.

30.01.2011 15:41, introvert

Ammonia, by the way, itself turns butterflies yellow quite well, especially if you prick it.

To be more precise, ammonia dissolves fats. It is widely used in paint and varnish(sealants, etc.) products. Experiment with unnecessary egg yolks.

31.01.2011 15:55, taler

Yeah...I remember stabbing Stubendorfs with ammonia in the Altai...I made some Eversmans without red spots...
Patented!!!Don't sell yellow Stubendorfs!!!

31.01.2011 15:57, taler

You can re-soak it. Raise the lower wings. Defects will be closed.

No, they won't close...The holes overlap then

31.01.2011 15:58, taler

Vasily, it's easier to make up a legend-this troides flies very high and can't be shot down otherwise than by a fraction

12.09.2011 19:39, Bianor

Spread out until combined, put a piece of carbon paper between the wings. You won't notice it on a black background.

24.09.2011 17:52, Коллекционер

Friends, I forgot to write down how my story ended. After much thought, I gave the butterfly to repair one professional dealer, k-rogo here many people know. And here's what happened. I remind you that almost a quarter of the lower right wing was crushed into small pieces. He assembled them ( all the pieces are NATIVE) on glue even without a base. Judge for yourself whether this jewelry work caused damage to science, or not, but aesthetics definitely won, and it's nice.

I would be more careful to do

30.07.2012 2:58, Alex P

And I'm for the fact that especially valuable species can be glued but without tinting,and the rest is for souvenirs to friends

13.10.2014 20:04, lunkov

And please tell me. How can you get rid of scuffs on the wings of butterflies? How to tint it. Some people say squirrel brush and women's shadows, the shadows are too fat, it turns out even worse. The composition is probably suitable powder, but it is not black. Thank you in advance for your response.

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19.10.2014 18:23, lunkov

So who will tell you how and how you can get rid of scuffs. Thank you in advance.

19.10.2014 20:21, Victor Titov

lunkov

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29.11.2014 1:45, Bianor

Dmitrich, we are talking about far from scientific material. I doubt very much that many people collect Troides for purely scientific purposes. For the most part, these are themed collections in shop windows, exclusively for beauty, although labeled according to all the rules, and in this case, a mangy butterfly spoils the whole look, so why not bother with restoration?

lunkov, try the soot from the candle - smoke the saucer, then scrape it off with a blade. Just do not apply from the front side, but from the back.

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