PlaymoFriends
Creative => How-To => Topic started by: Ismene on November 29, 2017, 01:59:49
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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?
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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.
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I tried steaming it. Not sure it helped.
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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.
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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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Thanks. I'll keep working at it. It's not for me; I'm trying to flatten the wings before gifting the fairy.
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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)
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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. ;)
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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)
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Hmmm. A year or so later, those 'permanently' flattened wings have folded back on themselves again.
(https://i.imgur.com/boSPv13.jpg)
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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:
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That is sooooo annoying!