Plastic Figures

[Oldboy]

Ladies and Gents. I will be moving to Italy later in the year, my house is in a village in the south. There the summers are very hot and the winters freezing with up to a metre of snow. Can anyone advise whether these extremes will have an adverse effect on plastic figures. Obviously mine will be indoors at a fairly constant temperature. On the announcement of plastic Napoleonic Austrian cavalry from the Perry's I am very tempted to take over some boxes to while away the winter.
All help gratefully received
Regards
Frank

[Shahbahraz]

Unless you leave the figures in direct sun, then you should be ok. I used to live in Canberra, (42 degrees was not unusual in summer, and -8 overnights in winter) - and the plastic of kits was unaffected unless left in direct Australian sun. (Which is way more intense than anything in Europe.)

[Oldboy]

Thank you. I was sure that was the case but I am aware that plastic figures can deteriorate over time. I will now press ahead with a plastic army.

[SteveBurt]

Quite a few of my older soft plastic figures have gone brittle with age, but I don't think it is anything to do with extremes of temperature. The plasticiser slowly evaporates over time.
Not noticed the issue with rigid plastic stuff (or metal of course).

[pws]

Ladies and Gents. I will be moving to Italy later in the year, my house is in a village in the south. There the summers are very hot and the winters freezing with up to a metre of snow. Can anyone advise whether these extremes will have an adverse effect on plastic figures. Obviously mine will be indoors at a fairly constant temperature. On the announcement of plastic Napoleonic Austrian cavalry from the Perry's I am very tempted to take over some boxes to while away the winter.
All help gratefully received
Regards
Frank

I live in central Italy never heard none talking about it... except the few fools who sometimes forgot them in a car under the sun in july/august... well this is definitely dangerous even for petwer/lead

[Oldboy]

Great thank you to all of you. F