Did a great job with the heat, i have never tried that , i was afraid i might burn through, i guess it takes practice. What i did with mine was take all the plastics off. I set up a table in the back yard with the plastics on it. I washed all the dirt off and let them dry. Them sprayed them down with armour all it will suck it up fairly quickly for the first few days, I did this multiple times a day over a 2 week period, the color started coming back. After that i just kept it wet with the protectant walk by and it be dry spray it down again. After it stayed wet for a day and i was sure the moisture level was back in the plastic, i wet sanded with all grits up to 1000 spend more time with 220 to get out imperfections. After that i went over it all with boiled lindseed oil. Worked well. If you have a lot of broken pieces may not be worth the time but your front piece looked good.