lessons learned so far…
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Never use EPS —EVER!
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Foam is a pain in the ass to fill and sand. There is apparently special foam filler --but its difficult to wok and expensive. Regular filler is much harder than the foam… and when you sand it you get raised islands of filler -resulting in a lumpy model. The more you try to fix this the worse you will make it.
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Us e the BIN bran primer that comes in the green and white can --the red stuff won’t work it’s shellac based. I found this out after I primed my model with it.
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Krylon makes a spray latex paint which apparently fiinishes well… hopefully this will bail my sorry ass out.
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avoid hard stuff --work with your foam on top of another piece of foam at all times to prevent it from scratching and gouging — I walked into a door hinge with my model and torn a corner off. Whooops…
Well I hope others can learn from my horrible mistakes, and find some humor in it.