Top tips for hiding join lines in foam terrain
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In this top terrain tips tutorial, I share my secrets for hiding the join lines between HD polystyrene foam sheets when building terrain such as hills and mountains for your wargaming. Hope it helps you folks!
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So, what are your top tip for hiding foam join lines?
I would suggest to put glue on the smallest piece of foam so that you don't need to guess on the bigger base piece when gluing foam pieces together.
I just use more colour and glue.
If you are going to be making many Undercuts or "V" groove cuts instead of a random box cutter invest an inexpensive "V" Gouge. It's a Woodcutting tool which come in varying sizes. It can be used in as many needs as one can think of.
Dont stack the foam blocks horizontally but vertically (or slightly diagonally). Even if the seam lines show a bit they look more natural.
I cover my foam builds in ModRock, I also prefer the end result, it looks more realistic.
I cheat by cutting each sheet into two or more wedges and stacking them in a different order, so the join lines look more like natural cracks, because they aren't parallel to the ground or each other.
Another awesome tutorial Mel
Thank you very much for the video. This is really useful! And I do love the music in your video. It adds an inspirational atmosphere instead of just putting an easy listening soundtrack in the background.
If your doing a sediment layered rock face you could leave the ridges of PVA as it would be less noticeable😀
I know it is rare...but it is good to see you sitting down saving your back. I always thought your back would be really sore at the end of the day.
It's becoming a necessity on a long day mate
Out of context Mel: “In this case you want to go in dry. Not completely dry because you’ll break your tool.” 😆
Thank you a lot for this tutorial. I spent many hours trying to figure out a way to do this, and when I turn on the PC, there`s this amazing video! Thank you, thank you, thank you! ahaahhaha
It's what I'm here for buddy
Nuts. Very helpful😂❤
Oh how I would love to spend a day or two in your shop with you building!
Nice ideas, Master of polystyrene!
Excellent as usual Mel. Can you carry this through and paint/flock it? Just so we can see how great a few pieces of foam can look. . . see the finished thing.
In the works mate ;-)
Fab.
Great tips Mel!
Another great on Mel!
great video thanks
youre the master!
Great tips!
Filler... but recently I discovered the power of the heat gun...
Caulking... Then the excess on the edge I rub in the join with wet finger always leave one side unsealed to let the dots of caulking dry inside..
That's my go to
Of course I haven't seen the whole video yet..and you may talk about it
Nice vid, great tutorial, thanks for sharing!...Bill
make a ball of tin foil, Rub and roll it to make rock texture. Job done
I highly suggest using special polymer glue for polystyrene rather than PVA to adhere foam. Sold in hardware stores ans used for gluing moldings. It's cheap doesn't shrink or expand and sets in about half an hour. Just lightly scuff surfaces before gluing.
Hi Mel, where can I get this kind of insulation in the UK. All I manage to find is the stuff with the silver backing on it ?
The silver backing pulls off easily, B&Q sell smallish sheets for 5 or 6 quid. I use this for mine!
Brilliant as always Mel! What brand is this foam?
this is old spaceboard eco stuff mate
If you try expanding foam and carve it will that just open a lit of air bubbles and be even harder to cover? Would it not work as well to coat along the line and then coat it all?
If you want to mate, but you might as well hit it with a heavy texture gloop coating in the case
Can you use filler as a glue for the foam slabs? Anybody tried yet?
it does stick foam but I've never used it to mate
"I normally say wetter is better, but in this case I'm going in dry" Mel 2019 😭
Not completely dry (filler), because you will break your tool