On the skull-art project I painted entirely by hand with all water-based latex and acrylic paint types. I recently used some Elmer's ready to use wood filler and it worked well when spread with a stiff paint brush. Drywall compound or carpenter's wood filler both works for this. I also found that you can apply some filler to smooth the porous surface texture of the machined foam. I applied some additional color by hand after on these projects.ģ. I used a commercial airless sprayer for some earlier projects that were for outdoor use and this worked well for applying the primer and a sealer coat of paint. Paint application makes the foam more durable. As mentioned in my original post you can easily sand the surface anomalies from the surface caused by the extruding process.Ģ. I learned a couple things working with the cheap material:ġ. No doubt the machine carving quality would improve with higher density material. The readily available cheap stuff is about $1.60 so my total material cost for my Skull-Art project was about $6.40. Looks like the site has 2' thick 4# product for $7.50/sq. Right now the drawback is the higher cost. The closest supplier/distributor here that I know of is in Jacksonville, FL and they are a little over 2 hours drive from me.

Thanks for passing on a small quantity supplier of foam-board.

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