I bought 20 styrofoam cones to make into Christmas trees and I just painted them with white interior wall paint, and it worked perfectly. There's no need to use Mod Podge on styrofoam, just paint it.
i was wondering if that would work! Thanks! My daughter has to make a 3D model of a cell and paint the parts......so guess what were doing this Thanksgiving weekend--lol
I do a layer with paper and clue, it makes it absolutely smooth. fine modeling paste I am trying now, but think the glued paper works best. Then I sand it and paint acrylic binder or finished at least twice over it. Gesso is on top of all that as a base for painting.
I cover it with mod podge leave it to dry and then sand it gently with fine sandpaper and then add another coat. Leave it to dry and then sand it gently again. Then use emulsion paint and leave it to dry and sand again. Then paint with your chosen paint.
Ooooooooooh! Your eyes are so pretty! I didn’t know you had a RU-vid channel. I just stumbled upon it today. I just watched you video on the basics. (And I needed to). It’s cool I can watch you here and Facebook 💜
@@itshell999 1st you need to blow over the foam with a heat gun and glaze it. The surface of the foam will feel rough, and not soft and crumbly, that is what you want. You could test the joint compound on a small piece of the foam first after it dries, sand it to smooth. See if it works for you.
Do you have any ideas of the best hardener for styrofoam before painting? Depending on what you want to do with the styrofoam, if you want something that lasts a long time then it needs some sort of hardener added prior to painting. I'm from the UK but I know there is sething called foamcoat in the US. I've been looking for any hardeners that are solvent free or water based resins that are not toxic. Normally if using a hardener first then you could go straight into using acrylic on top or add a primer/gesso before hand.
How many new beginner I’m making brownies out of a sponge I painted it. It turned out great now I was usually in the spackling with paint as for icing for the top of it but I found out when it dried. It’s very dull looking. How do I make it shine the icing with using the sparkle in the paint? Thanks
Hii firstly, thank you! What kind of paint did you use? Poster paint? Acrylic paint ? I’m wanting to do a big back drop so this tip really comes in handy. I’m from NZ is Tacky glue PVA glue ?
I just tried this and it needed a lot of cornstarch and I still wasn't getting a great paste consistency. It also felt like it was drying very quickly, which is another benefit of tacky glue. My coverage looks like the mod-podge in the video. Once I had the paste I added in a few drops of paint to colour and seal in one step, that seems to have worked well. I tried a second way adding paint, then glue, then starch, and wasn't patient enough to keep adding starch to get to a paste, the dry time was slower though. That had an obviously thinner consistency on the foam, but still filled the holes. The surface is bumpy on both foam surfaces (doing spheres), so I plan to sand them and cover with mod-podge then paint again.
You could try covering it with two coats of mod podge or any PVA glue and leaving it to dry and then paint it. However it may be cheaper to buy another one.
Easy glue: 1/4 Cup of acetone add small pieces of styrofoam, the styrofoam will melt, keep adding pieces until it becomes sticky like glue; Apply with a flat stick/spatula and glue the pieces together. It dries fast and strong.
being a new modeler we find means and methods hard to find, so we just stumble upon them, like this.. AND you can use minwax wipe on poly and rust-oleum oil base enamel directly on FOAM, we discovered this while painting an Arrow foam Corsair. I happened to get some oil base paints on the foam packing and realized that not only does it not dissolve the foam, it bonds very well to the foam. The cheap paint that came on the plane peeled off with some Blue tape after I had painted over with some latex water base paints; We even poured some paint thinner on the foam and it pooled on the foam but Did Not Dissolve the foam. Yes, you can coat your Foam plane with oil base poly, paint etc, resulting in a Hard structural skin.
It's an untrue comparison, because you have two coats on two parts, both of those having the first coat supposedly acting as a sealer to minimuse textured appearance. Your "control", only has 1 coat of substance. Not a true representation.
