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Styrofoam - Any Negatives?

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Posted by UNCLEBUTCH on Monday, January 15, 2018 6:04 PM

rrebell
The only thing you should not do is leave the final surface exposed forever, 

Why not ???????????

I'm beginning to wonder if we are talking about the same thing

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Posted by Pruitt on Monday, January 15, 2018 7:29 PM

One downside is that fumes from the foam are toxic. The fumes given off when you use a hot wire cutter can poison you, so be careful.

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Posted by PC101 on Monday, January 15, 2018 8:08 PM

If the foam is not covered or sealed and if you use it for roads, parking lots, anything smooth or flat that you will have vehicles (mini metals, model power and the likes) with rubber tires, these tires (some do and some don't) eat down into the foam, yes down to the axels.

A side note, these (some do and some don't) rubber tires will stick themselves to plastic deck autoracks and leave a mark on the deck.  

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Posted by rrebell on Monday, January 15, 2018 9:18 PM

UNCLEBUTCH

 

 
rrebell
The only thing you should not do is leave the final surface exposed forever, 

 

Why not ???????????

I'm beginning to wonder if we are talking about the same thing

 

Beaded foam  can lose beads is rubbed against and in building, running and maintaining a model railroad this is imposible. Also plaster cloth sticks well to beaded foam and gives it a smoth surface that is easy to stain or zip texture. Also it smoths between layers as no mater how carfull a carver you are, layers are layers and this hides them well and if you want to add form you can add more foam and cover that. One of my favorite finish ideas for backdrops is to cut low depth hills and cover them with plaster cloth built off layout compleatly finished with ground cover too. These can then be caulked to the backdrop for relistic hills that take only a 1" or two of valuble real estate.

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Posted by UNCLEBUTCH on Monday, January 15, 2018 9:49 PM

rrebell
 
UNCLEBUTCH

 

 
rrebell
The only thing you should not do is leave the final surface exposed forever, 

 

Why not ???????????

I'm beginning to wonder if we are talking about the same thing

 

 

 

Beaded foam  can lose beads is rubbed against and in building, running and maintaining a model railroad this is imposible. Also plaster cloth sticks well to beaded foam and gives it a smoth surface that is easy to stain or zip texture. Also it smoths between layers as no mater how carfull a carver you are, layers are layers and this hides them well and if you want to add form you can add more foam and cover that. One of my favorite finish ideas for backdrops is to cut low depth hills and cover them with plaster cloth built off layout compleatly finished with ground cover too. These can then be caulked to the backdrop for relistic hills that take only a 1" or two of valuble real estate.

 

 

 Ok we are not, Your refering to the beaded stuff, and I agree totaly.

I was talking about the blue/pink

please dis regard,

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