Here’s Rin a few weeks after bending her back into shape. There’s a little bit of warp coming back, but I expected that since the inner tube she’s carrying makes for an imbalance and I didn’t do anything to counteract that weight. So, while the hot water method is a pretty good way of reshaping the figure, it still doesn’t deal with why the figure warped in the first place. At least, it’ll extend the display life for a couple of months depending on the figurine.
The image on the left was taken on April 24 and the one on the right on May 11:
On the other hand, it gives me a reason to start rotating the figures on display instead of just buying another display case to fill up with pvc. And Erwin writes a little about figure warpage and prevention.
Couold probably hang something heavy on Rin’s left elbow to counter it
Tohsaka FTW!
I started collecting these figures in last December and had never heard about leaning figures before navigating threw these websites and began to worry about one figure. I have Ilia swimsuit from Alter since January and I don’t see any problem with her so far. But her position keeps me worried but so far nothing and hope it stays that way.
http://anime–stuff.blogspot.com/2007/02/illia-aka-iria.html
Hey Rats hows your Saika holding up? Mine is leaning towards the sword position because her feet pegs suck so I’m trying to find something that hold her in place like a bit of tape.
My Saika is fine. If you use tape it would have to be double sided tape because you need it to be flat. Poster putty just might be easier to work with. I’ve never used it though. The only other figure I’ve had to fix is Simca and I just super glued her to the base.
try to lean her more to right side, and see what will happen… (to center her weight balance)
Sorry to hear about the warpage. If anything you could use clear model glue on the base and wipe up the mess so it doesn’t show as much. Another thing is like other figures where theres a screw on the bottom, if you are careful you could try drilling your own holes into it. It’s up to you.
Hmmm .. does using super glue cause any damage to the figurines?
I don’t know how good or bad super glue is for pvc (Simca seems okay), but using any permanent adhesive is something you have to be careful with. It’s permanent which means for a lot of figures you can’t put it back in the box. The other thing is if you glue it in an off position you can’t re-adjust it without damaging the figure. But, it’s about as solid a plant as you’ll get.
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Super glue is genereally not a good idea on PVC.
If you do use it, you have to be extremely careful, because it tends to want to dribble all over the place it needs to ahdere, meaning it can get messy. Since it is an air-contact catalyst, it also starts to get hard to manage the moment it gets exposed to air, meaning if some starts to slip free from the area you want to keep snug, you have maybe… two or three seconds at most to wipe it really clean or it will turn white and crystally.
And then that area is a wash if you say… put it on base or if you had to glue a part of a figure back together.
If you want to remove it from a figure, then go into the work expecting to destroy a part of the figure because it has to be chipped off and there are good chances that superglue will mar part of the figure it was on when you remove it.
Use Super Glue with extreme caution.
I haven’t used it on anything other than the bottoms of feets > MegaHouse Simca and Alter’s Kaze. Wonder if modeling glue would be better?