My Plastidip Bubbled And Ruined My Helmet | Cosplay Apprentice 

You fixed it, hence why we make mistakes. We can learn to fix them.

Amazing job as usual Skyler. Glad that worked out for ya.

I hate the white plastidip. It bubbles almost every time I use it. I think it's the area I live in but never have an issue with black plastidip.

This happened to me a lot in the beginning of my foam cosplay work. And to fill it in I just sanded the area down and then put in some regular glue, and then sanded it again until it was smooth

I’ve heard about those Prop Monkey products. I wanted to try some out on a helmet I was building. But I’ve never had my Plastidip bubble! I have spray paint wrinkle tho :(

I'm glad you fixed it , dude.

So we are attempting our first armor piece for our niece (very simple design) with 5mm EVA foam as the base with trim and decorative scales using 2mm EVA to emulate Hiccup and Astrids dragonrider armor from How to Train Your Dragon. We were using the white plastidip When we used Plastidip the surface ended up very bubbly and pock-marked. We had sprayed in our garage (with proper ventilation) to avoid the outdoor moisture and humidity as I've had issues with this on plastic miniatures and acrylic primer, however, the surface quality still ended up being very poor. We had also heat-sealed the foam with a heat gun a few days prior to applying the plastidip. In addition, we have some layers of the 2mm trim foam glued along the edges of the armor plate scales peeled back and many of the scales glued on the armor surface peeled up along the scale edges. We are assuming that as the plastidip dried, it contracted and the "shrinking" cause the foam underneath to warp and peel up. We did try to use a heat gun to reshape some of the scales and trim and then re-glued these, but the plastidip did actually start bubbing and did not look very good at all. In the mean time since we don't have time to rebuild the armor before the holidays we are trying to fix the pockmarked surface by using a thinned gesso to try and even the surface so it doesn't look as bad. We're not quite sure what we are doing wrong, do you have idea what might have caused this and how we can avoid it in the future?

I learned the hard way that you don't use chrome made by Krylon! It never would get solid and dry, even after DAYS...IN GA! So i used Dupli-color from the auto store...dried in mins. !!!

What I do is use paint thinner and smooth the bubbles and texture out wearing a nitrile glove.

Any idea as to what went wrong and why it bubbled? Otherwise, good to know it can be fixed!

idk What it is, but light colored plasti dip has NEVER come out nice for me at all. No matter what I tried, Id ALWAYS get those kind of results you got. I stick with black or grey. sure I might have to mask more when I paint but, better to have a tried and tested product vs the one that can't decide if its gonna cure nicely, or tries to skin its own surface before it degasses. Love Pdip but seriously the colors are a pain.

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Nice

u can make those as battle damage if thats okay with u

Dang that stinks! If all else fails call it battle damage.