After finding out the hard way using the canned compressed air (for computers) only makes your joes dustier,...

How do YOU keep you joes and Vehicles Clean?

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For vehicles, armor-all wipes. Works great, leaves them nice and shiny, doesn't effect most vinyl/plastic decals (but DO NOT let them near Night Force glow in the dark decals...takes the black ink right off...found out the hard way). For figures...usually just a damp rag.

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For normal shelf dust, a duster or a quick wipedown with a damp rag, figures or vehicles. To remove 20 some odd years of grime, for vehicles or figures: full dissassembly, dishsoap, an old toothbrush and warm water.

I use Swifers™.
They're great to remove dust of figures, shelves and vehicles.

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Most are in large plastic bins. Any dios that are out, are the real problem. In this one bedroom, if the Mrs. is cooking or frying, even with a range fan and a pan screen, the micro-oil molecules get busy with the dust particles and are Hell on dio windows, and other exteriors. Grab-it Dry sheets in the Orange smell seem to do the best at removing it, except for the leftover orange smell.

But it is Florida afterall...

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I have been dealing with this issue for the past several weeks. I have my entire collection on display. And while having all this stuff on display is fun to look at, it is a pain when it comes to dust. I have so much stuff that I usually just live with the dust until it gets really unacceptable. I reached that point and I am systematically going around the room and dusting everthing.

To combat this problem for the future, I bought an air purifier. I know it won't get all the dust, but I have hopes that it will at least reduce the amount that settles. This thing is pretty powerful so it helps with cleaning stuff now. Basically I take the toy that needs dusted, hold it up to the back (intake) of the purifier and dust it with a feather duster. It does a good job of catching the stuff from the air close by. To dust the part the feather duster can't get, I do the same thing with an air duster.

I tried Swifter dusters before and I don't like them. The fibers on those things always get caught joints and parts from the vehicles. Since the feather duster is whipping over it, they don't usually get caught.

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If you have figures or small and/or intricate vehicles that haven't been dusted for a while, I have found that a dry, clean, medium-sized artist's paintbrish works pretty well. It can get into those tiny little detail indentations better than anything.

For the sake of brevity, I won't relate what happened the time I tried to use a leaf blower on the USS Flagg...

Trying to replicate launch conditions for the Sky Striker?

So nobody licks them or takes them into the bath with them?

Just asking...

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Playdough is great for removing dust. Press it onto the dusty vehicle of your choice and then pull it off.