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Creative => How-To => Topic started by: Ismene on November 29, 2017, 01:59:49

Title: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Ismene on November 29, 2017, 01:59:49
The F?gures fairies come with closed wings. I'm trying to press one open. It looked great when I took it out from under the heavy box, but it started closing again. How long do I need to wait? Days? Weeks?
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Macruran on November 29, 2017, 02:35:46
Maybe soak in heated water first, then put under a weight? I had some success with that method when trying to straighten out oak branches.
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Ismene on November 29, 2017, 03:32:37
I tried steaming it. Not sure it helped.
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Raven on November 29, 2017, 03:56:18
I had success (which, months later, seems to be permanent) by:

1.  Folding the wings as far as I could in the opposite direction, and securing them with a soft hair tie.
2.  Putting them in very hot water for 20 minutes.  (I couldn't tell you what the temperature was; it wasn't boiling, but it was too hot to keep my hands in it for long.)  I covered the bowl, to try to keep the heat in.
3.  Removing the hair tie and flattening the wings.
4.  Putting them under a heavy stack of books for two weeks.

They were yellow wings.  Now I can't tell them apart from the non-Figures yellow wings.

Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Klickteryx on November 29, 2017, 04:57:52
I don't know if it worked but I store those fairies with the wings bent forward and secured with rubber bands. The folded wings are still useful for dioramas where a side on fairy can be seen with wings sticking backwards like a flutterby.
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Ismene on November 29, 2017, 07:01:56
Thanks. I'll keep working at it. It's not for me; I'm trying to flatten the wings before gifting the fairy.
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: cheng on December 01, 2017, 11:30:20
when I'm impatient, I'd heat bent playmo parts with a mini hair dryer......10 secs* .....and then longer and longer until it doesn't spring back to their original positions. 
...if this suggestion pose a danger with kids reading it, kindly delete my this reply.... you!
(* so that they dont melt/deform)
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Ismene on December 04, 2017, 08:49:38
when I'm impatient, I'd heat bent playmo parts with a mini hair dryer......10 secs* .....and then longer and longer until it doesn't spring back to their original positions. 
...if this suggestion pose a danger with kids reading it, kindly delete my this reply.... you!
(* so that they dont melt/deform)

Dear children,
Don't try this at home.  ;)
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Klickteryx on December 11, 2017, 21:15:10
Dear children,
Don't try this at home.  ;)

Yes, you might do perm anent damage to the figure.  (http://www.animateit.net/data/media/august2009/th_hiding.gif)
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Raven on June 05, 2018, 04:30:38
Hmmm.  A year or so later, those 'permanently' flattened wings have folded back on themselves again.

(https://i.imgur.com/boSPv13.jpg)
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: Ismene on June 05, 2018, 05:51:30
Hmmm.  A year or so later, those 'permanently' flattened wings have folded back on themselves again.

(https://i.imgur.com/boSPv13.jpg)

Thanks for the update! Looks like we might need to store fairy wings under a brick.  :lol:
Title: Re: How long do you press your fairy wings?
Post by: tahra on June 05, 2018, 07:40:57
That is sooooo annoying!