On 11/10/2018 at 7:08 PM, kmanstudios said:
Found a picture of the old heatgun. On this sort of plastic, which is vacuum thermoformed over a gypsum model, you could get a very nice gloss with the heat gun. The edges were first cut with special scissors, then shaped with a Dremel-like tool, and then heat-gunned.
Our model-edges were a lot thicker than yours. So in your case the balance between smoothing the edges only, and melting and destroying the whole thing, will be much more critical. This was about the distance we used, ca. 5mm.
This brand of gun was not very good: it was too hard to light. Today, I can't even get it started anymore, even not with a flame or bunsen burner. Seems like the catalyst has burned up...
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