Thread: Yellow Foam

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My local hardware stores don't carry the pink and blue foam most people use for carving. They have the white styrofoam and a yellow foamboard. The styrofoam has large beads and works fine for tombstones and rough textures, but not for smooth details.

Has anyone tried the yellow foam? It's a 4'x8' sheet layered with silver foil. Usually labelled 'Thermasheet' or 'R-Max'.

I have used that foam (tannish color - foiled on both sides) and it takes detail wonderfully.

It can be sanded, but keep in mind it takes a couple of coats of paint to cover, due to how porous it is.
(wear a dust mask when sanding, as this foam becomes a very fine dust when sanded, and floats everywhere)

Excellent! I thought it would be, i was surreptiously poking one corner of it, but I couldn't be sure.

Still, getting it home on the roof of a hatchback is still going to be tricky.