Hi,

I just picked up Red November and when I took the gnomes out of the box, at least 3 of them are really bent. I tryed to bend them back, but no luck. Is there anything I can do to fix my bent gnomes?

Thanks

Plastic figures bending in tight spaces is a common occurance. In order to get them to unbend and hold their shape you need to do a bit more than bend them back in place.

Get a pan of water and warm it on the stove. Get another bowl of water and put ice in it.

Once the water is boiling, remove it from heat and dip your figures in there. You want to keep them long enough that they soften up. Make sure the pan is removed form the heat because you don't want to scorch your figures. Also, use tongs or a fork to scope it out so you don't burn yourself. (Common sense but I don't want to be accused of causing someone pain!).

Bend the figure back into position. Make sure you are on a flat surface so that the base remains flat. If the figure is extremely bent, you may want to overbend it in the opposite direction.

Once you are satisfied with the position, keep holding it and dip it in the cold ice water. Hold it there until you can feel it harden or your hands hurt from the cold. Alternately, you can keep it under cold running water until it cools. It will take longer but be a bit more comfortable.

The figure should hold its shape - especially if you overcompensated on the bend back. It may lose its shape slightly over a little bit of time so just repeat the process.

Excellent, I can use this for some of my BattleLore figures!

Lord Zurgling said:

Yep, works on BattleLore as well. My first "major operation" like this was with War of the Ring. Especially the top heavy Nazgul.

The reason they get bent our of shape is either a long time in the cramped position or they get tossed int eh box too soon after they come out of the mold and harden up in the bent position. Applying the heat helps relive the internal stresses in them so they can relax into their original shape. If they are stubborn it may be because their "memory" is getting clouded by their recent bent shape. I'd say m,aybe 80% of the figures I have corrected this way only took one "bath." Maybe another 19% need a second one. And the final 1% needed a third bath.

Just a question-how do you like the game? I have been thinking about getting it, and I like that a large group can play, but was just wondering about how fun and easy it is to play. thanks!

mcgsmanor said:

You can get more feedback in the propoer forum. new.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_temas.asp

But the game is pretty fun. The rulebook is a bit disorganized so it can be hard to follow. If you get it, I strongly suggest running a game solo so you can work out the kinks and grasp the understanding of it before you play with others.

ColtsFan76 said:

heh, same here

bunch of figures were bent so much they couldn't stand straight, so it had to be done.

since then, I've straightened many, many others the same way - except some DnD miniatures, that is; for some strange reason, they just kept getting back into bent position, no matter how much heated/cooled they were.

It is possible they were somehow shaped that way - or the plastic is too sof tto hold the reshaping. You can try overcompensating them the next time you give them the bath. So if they look like this: \ don't straighten them up to this | or they will just go back to this \

Instead, if they ar like this \, try bending them like this / so when they start to lose shape, they go back to |.

It may be they are also getting rebent if they are being stored in something that is to tight.

LOL, nice explanation, that with / and

anyway, I've already used overcompensating on most of the FFG miniatures, and it turned out very well.

the problem occured just with few of the DnD minis (some skeletons, to be exact) -

apparently, they're made from different kind of plastic (I'm no expert, it just seems so) and are bent in the legs, which are too thin. nothing I did helped, so I just use them as they are. not a big deal, really