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Hey all,

Has anybody ever repositioned legs and/or arms on plastic miniatures using a hair dryer?

If so any tips and tricks or other suggestions?

Never tried it myself.

Might work for some resin minis. Probably won't work on plastic, definitely WON'T work on metal.

I used it with varying degrees of success with the soft plastic that some miniatures are made of. The hard polysterene that Citadel uses probably doesn't respond well to that kind of technique.

Ah well.. I may have to figure something else out..

Thanks for the feedback

You can use heat to reposition bent fine details back to it's original position with varying degrees of success, but it's generally not viable for "molding" the piece as you would by cutting and repositioning.

The amount of heat needed to pull that off would make the plastic into lump.

Hairdryer gets pretty hot.
Try it on a sprue.

i tried it on a GW mini once.
it started to bubble and burn before getting the piece soft enough to reposition.

im sure i could have been too close or too impatient etc so results may vary.

mothsniper had a good idea, just give it a sot on an old sprue if you have one.

forgot to add... i also found that once it was actually soft enough to reposition it was like soft goo... it didn't hold shape well at all.
if you wanted to reposition say an arm at an elbow for example, it would more likely just bend mid arm or pull like soft taffy.

It's going to look weird even if you manage it... Why not just cut and reposition?

Like everybody has said, the hairdryer is out…

I have decided on this occasion to use a bit of clever terrain to achieve the result I am looking for.

I ‘cut and filled’ the random soldier mini for the most recent Dakka entry and it seems that is indeed the best way forward for repositioning arms and legs. Ah well… onwards and upwards

What specific parts are you looking to bend? there's definitely options but it'd help to know what you are trying to do

I have ended up going for another method to obscure certain parts now…

But the parts in question were hands and feet