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Apologies if I've missed the article on here. I bought a griffon kit from FW and the main compartment's wall is bowed inward quite a bit. I've been pretty lucky in my FW kits until this one and have never had to fix it. Does anybody know how?

Thanks,
Sarge

Ive heard hair dryers or really warm water. Soften it up a bit and then slowly push it all back into shape.

Forgeworld have tips on their website, but I think hot/boiling water is best though be careful if it's a complicated shape. If it's really bad you can always see if they will exchange, in the UK you always have that right.

KingCracker is right, use hot water, I re-flattened a set of (then unpainted) river sections that had been warped by heat. It may take several applications - I used water that was as hot as I could physically stand, sat them in it for 30 seconds, took them out, re-shaped, plunged into cold water, checked them, repeated as necessary.

Its the left wall of the compartment. The wall is bent inward. It doesn't appear to be a complex shape, nor with a ton of detail. Where did you see the tips on FW site? I looked, not very well apparently, and missed them.

Sarge wrote:Its the left wall of the compartment. The wall is bent inward. It doesn't appear to be a complex shape, nor with a ton of detail. Where did you see the tips on FW site? I looked, not very well apparently, and missed them.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resinmodels2.htm

not as long an explanation as I remember, but still good.

a friend of mind plays nids and everything bigger than a genestealer is made from scratch, or at least custom. His flying thing (i think its the hierophant) is made of putty, but he said he made the wings by taking a bit piece of resin, boiling it, and when its really hot you bend it into place and let it cool. Then carve any details in it you'd like.

So yeah long story short, try boiling the thing. Although its a use at your own risk, never done it myself.

I'm going to give the hairdryer method a shot this coming weekend. Figure that is less likely to melt the thing. If that doesn't work, I'll just cut out the offending section of wall and rebuild it using greenstuff.

Just remember when using a heat method, you need to be super extra careful. Otherwise your going to mess it up badly. If you take your time and it takes longer to heat up the part, that is for the best. If you heat it to fast, itll start melting and that will be very bad lol. Good luck

Warm water works most of the time. Didn't work for my leman russ destroyer cannon, that's now constantly aimed at the floor in front of it

A heat gun is the only way to go. I just assembled my Hellhound that was badly warped, but using a heat gun at a low setting I was able to straighten it out in a couple of minutes. A hairdryer might work, but I've never gotten the hot water trick to.