First Ever Experiment With Makins Something Out Of EVA Foam! It's Exciting...

First ever experiment with makins something out of EVA foam! It's exciting...

Printing the cylinder took 3 attempts - first print came loose from the print bed; second print I forgot that you need panel gaps if you want details to be visible from a distanct.

Luckily I modelled it in Fusion360 so I could tweak individual settings without too much difficulty

Drilled a shallow hole in the rear half to hold the spindle

Starting to look like a revolver now

More 15-minute pose doodles

First a coat of grey rattlecan primer to try and seal the foam, then a coat of yellow filler-primer followed by sanding to try and smooth out the texture (especially on the 3D printed parts)

Following a final priming with black polyurethane primer, the pieces were basecoated by hand

I did edge highlighting, because I didn't want drybrusing to pick up on the mistakes made when I was making the foam pieces. The wood texture was done with a thin brush.

Finally, weathering with water-thinnable oil paint.

All that's left now is sealing and the final photos!

Meching up some Dinos