LincolnSteve
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You're right about it sinking in where it gets knocked. For an experiment i've been pressing on where those two big holes were and it has sunk right in. It's as if all the tiny bubbles and air pockets in it collapse and don't bounce back. I've stretched a piece of the old vinyl over those big holes as they are and you can see the indentation under it. I think i'm happy enough with the foam for all the areas of small, thin repairs like the cracks and little holes but i've got a new plan for the big holes. I'm a proper hoarder of stuff that will 'come in handy' and for once I think something might. I found some dense foam matting in a big sheet in the garage the other day. I've genuinely got no clue where and when I got it but it was probably just happily sitting in a skip somewhere looking forward to it's new life at the bottom of a landfill when along I came and repurposed it. I'm going to see if it can be shaped reasonably well and if so i'm going to cut out the foam in those bad areas and layer it in, shaping as we go. Bonded with puraflex 40 to glue and seal it all round it might be a goer. It feels like the original foam and it springs back when you press it. It's peeing down with rain here so that might be a small job that could be done in my very limited garage space after all todays other chores are done. My back is killing me at the moment though so there's a very big temptation to say bugger it and just sit indoors drinking tea and finishing off easter eggs. We'll see.The only issue I can think of is that expanding foam is quite brittle when cured. In other words it won’t bounce back if clonked with anything. Not that one goes out of one’s way to clonk a new dash of course.
I watch a few model makers on utube and they have all manner of special jollop for building dioramas and the like. Soft stuff, ard stuff, bouncy stuff. Often wondered if they, along with the costume builders had something that might fit the bill.
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