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<blockquote data-quote="TheSChorsch719" data-source="post: 3615210" data-attributes="member: 105588"><p>Gluing and painting process. So Most of you will have worked with the gray EVA foam mats, They are very easy to work with glue paint and sculpt. I am using this foam for the head and bark larger bits. The foam for the branches is Pipe insulation is made from Polyethylene. Polyethylene does not stick to anything, and very little sticks to polyethylene. To glue it on I use a low temperature hot glue gun. I believe this works because the hot glue gun melts the foam and bonds better to the melted foam. (High heat hot glue will melt right through the foam ) </p><p></p><p>Painting the piece has been its own problem. First I tried spray painting the whole thing, and adding detail with acrylic paints... This looked good but quickly chipped off on high stress areas. So I grabbed scrap piece of foam and tested some painting methods... Spray paint sucks, Spray primer sucks, Strait acrylic paint worked the but would chip off with heavy use. I tried applying a thin layer of white glue and that flaked off the moment it was dry. </p><p></p><p>In short painting polyethylene is a bitch</p><p></p><p>Solution that I am implementing..</p><p></p><p>I notes ed that the spray primer would only chip off if it was heavy applied a very very light misting would hold in the pores of the foam. So I scraped off all the spray paint I had painted with a shop knife blade, and misted the costume with a light layer of primer. After that I applied a thick layer of a latex based exterior primer. After a night to dry this method holds up to some abuse. Now I expect I can paint whatever I want to this new surface. </p><p><img src="https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/p180x540/11108211_10206801979153875_3841508169585337050_n.jpg?oh=480049a0d106b12938fb690df828977a&oe=55AC44AD" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10982926_10206801978753865_7913255218785564139_n.jpg?oh=fa7960e39c6a7980364d46fa683564b0&oe=55D9094A" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheSChorsch719, post: 3615210, member: 105588"] Gluing and painting process. So Most of you will have worked with the gray EVA foam mats, They are very easy to work with glue paint and sculpt. I am using this foam for the head and bark larger bits. The foam for the branches is Pipe insulation is made from Polyethylene. Polyethylene does not stick to anything, and very little sticks to polyethylene. To glue it on I use a low temperature hot glue gun. I believe this works because the hot glue gun melts the foam and bonds better to the melted foam. (High heat hot glue will melt right through the foam ) Painting the piece has been its own problem. First I tried spray painting the whole thing, and adding detail with acrylic paints... This looked good but quickly chipped off on high stress areas. So I grabbed scrap piece of foam and tested some painting methods... Spray paint sucks, Spray primer sucks, Strait acrylic paint worked the but would chip off with heavy use. I tried applying a thin layer of white glue and that flaked off the moment it was dry. In short painting polyethylene is a bitch Solution that I am implementing.. I notes ed that the spray primer would only chip off if it was heavy applied a very very light misting would hold in the pores of the foam. So I scraped off all the spray paint I had painted with a shop knife blade, and misted the costume with a light layer of primer. After that I applied a thick layer of a latex based exterior primer. After a night to dry this method holds up to some abuse. Now I expect I can paint whatever I want to this new surface. [IMG]https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/p180x540/11108211_10206801979153875_3841508169585337050_n.jpg?oh=480049a0d106b12938fb690df828977a&oe=55AC44AD[/IMG] [IMG]https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10982926_10206801978753865_7913255218785564139_n.jpg?oh=fa7960e39c6a7980364d46fa683564b0&oe=55D9094A[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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