Thread: Anyone used Plast-Dip before ?

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Has anyone here ever considered coating foam with the spray on versions of plasti-dip or spray on electrical tape ?

I have some foam sculptures and I'm thinking this might save them from the sun and weather.. any thoughts ?

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Or does anyone have something similar ?

I thought the same thing before but have opted to use rubberized car undercoating before for my skull wall panels a few years back. Its great weatherproofing for at least 3yrs or so. Best of luck with whatever you choose!

So this dip and the undercoating would have to replaced eventually ?

I've been experimenting with heating up up vinyl and using it to cover pieces it seems to work but you loose a lot of detail.

i think plastidip is solvent based you would have to do a test on your foam to see if it gets eaten by the plastidip , I have used it for other types of dense foam but not styro or the pink stuff, you may have to prime your tombstone with a coating of latex paint first then the plastidip spray , you also may have to do more than one coat of plastidip to get it to be a full coverage again depending on what type of styro you are using it should work as that is what it is designed for ,I made some landau bars for my hhr out of a dense foam and coated it with plastidip it has held up to Canadian weather so I guess thats a plus

Someone recently posted in another thread about a product called Vanillacryl that protects and hardens foam.

We're in the process of adding a BBQ island and such to our backyard and some of it will be stucco clad. Our contractor said he will be coating the stucco'd foam architectural details with something that will make it very hard and less prone to damage. Don't know what it is called though. But I think it's probably the same stuff developers use to coat the foam window framing and such on new houses (seems like they have all but given up on using real wood for adding detail around windows and doors these days, especially on production housing developments).

BTW I've used plastic-dip for coating a few metal things but I too wondered if it wouldn't start de-solving the foam.

Other forums on mask making, etc. call Plasti-dip "death-in-a-can". And while that may seem appealing on a Halloween forum, please use a respirator because it contains all kinds of nastiness and fumes. I'm just sayin...

Plasti-dip and liquid electrical tape are solvent based and they might eat away at your foam.

For weatherproofing and obtaining a stone like finish I have used a product called Cement All on the pink insulation board.; The name is misleading because The two tombstones I made really came out ultra lite.

I'm actually looking to coat a dinosaur I made a few years ago out of insulation foam aka Great Stuff. He's about 6x13' long and recently he has started to degrade..even using outdoor paint. I've seen vinyl hold up outdoors for 10 years on some projects we have and they show no signs at all of rot or decay.

I started taking some pieces of this vinyl and testing it..I found by wiring it down and heating it up to a molten point it will shrink and take on the details of the under sculpt...while also making it hard and weather proof. Problem is is pretty hard to hide the seams where you join it and this vinyl roll was given to us as a donation. So it's not easy to get a lot more. I was hoping either the Plasti-Dip or the Electric tape version would work well as I could simply spray the whole thing with a few cans. This dino stands outdoors year round and so I was hoping it wouldn't decay being made of a material for tools and cars.

There is a material they coat foam with that makes like a fiberglass coating on it..I recall seeing it used a lot on projects fro the series Monster House on Discovery. It looks like it has to sprayed on but it requires an expensive machine.

Ihauntu , have you used it on Great Stuff foam before ? ( I'll test some myself on a piece of scrap just to be sure anyway ) Do you have a pic of what your finished product looks like ?