Banner Bearer with Bent Flagstaff

[flightmaster101 1,513]

Anyone else annoyed by this?  Anyone have a fix?  I have done the steam straighten and ice bath, but the flag is just too heavy and bends back into place.  Am I just being too OCD about this?

[Contrapulator 692]

Steam? I just dunk 'em in really hot water.

[Parakitor 5,133]

Me too. And then I bend it a little past straight when I set it, because the plastic still tries to relax towards its original position when it resets. This results in a nice, straight staff for your banner bearer.

[flightmaster101 1,513]

2 hours ago, Contrapulator said:

Steam? I just dunk 'em in really hot water.

The snarky part of me wants to say that steam is really hot water, but I will refrain and I will just say that I have better luck with steam since I have better control over what gets heated and warped than just dipping.

[Uthoroc 382]

I've actually cut the staff at the bend, drilled and pinned it to give it additional strength. That worked.

[Budgernaut 6,222]

1 hour ago, Uthoroc said:

I've actually cut the staff at the bend, drilled and pinned it to give it additional strength. That worked.

Hard. Core.

[Hawkman2000 352]

I would say swap the plastic rod part out with a thin metal rod. In the past, I've used thicker paper clips bent into straight shape for better or taller banners. 

[Darthain 1,746]

3 hours ago, Uthoroc said:

I've actually cut the staff at the bend, drilled and pinned it to give it additional strength. That worked.

I should have done that, as one of mine is perma floppy, but I painted it instead of doing work and try not to care.

[flightmaster101 1,513]

5 hours ago, Uthoroc said:

I've actually cut the staff at the bend, drilled and pinned it to give it additional strength. That worked.

I may look into that. To bad I've almost finished his paint.

[Ywingscum 734]

Yup I'm a dunker.  No patience for steam, and no skill for cutting and manufacturing.  Although I work in a small manufacturing plant!!! We even use pvc in some of our plastic extrusion. 

[flightmaster101 1,513]

3 hours ago, Ywingscum said:

Yup I'm a dunker.  No patience for steam, and no skill for cutting and manufacturing.  Although I work in a small manufacturing plant!!! We even use pvc in some of our plastic extrusion. 

Do you mean patience for getting the water to boil?  I've only ever had parts take 10-15 seconds to soften. 

[Ywingscum 734]

14 minutes ago, flightmaster101 said:

Do you mean patience for getting the water to boil?  I've only ever had parts take 10-15 seconds to soften. 

I totally pictured you holding it over a pot of water for an hour, testing your arm strength limits! Haha

I take it back

[flightmaster101 1,513]

6 minutes ago, Ywingscum said:

I totally pictured you holding it over a pot of water for an hour, testing your arm strength limits! Haha

I take it back

LOL now worries!  Yea pro tip, wait for the water to boil before putting the model over it!

[GS_Topcow 13]

i use a blow dryer and iced water.

 

[Force Majeure 3,865]

I get a mug and pop it in the microwave oven for 60 seconds then dip the figure. I fish it out and run it under the tap to "set" it in place. It works most of the time. If you've ever left your figures in a hot car or sitting on a table with direct sun on them, they tend to "remember" their original position.

Re-positioning after painting hasn't been a problem for me either, but I prefer to do it before the paint goes on.

Edited August 7, 2017 by Force Majeure