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How long do you press your fairy wings?

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Ismene:
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?

Macruran:
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.

Ismene:
I tried steaming it. Not sure it helped.

Raven:
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.

Klickteryx:
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.

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