Painting Polystyrene

[PaulWhitt20]

Hi,

Please can some of you experienced modellers answer a newbie question?

I am making some scenery out of polystyrene packing material, the sort you get holding a new video in the box. I have shaped it to the correct shape - lots of mess, but now I want to paint it to stop the bits falling off etc. Do I first coat it in a 50:50 mix of water/PVA glue and then paint or do I need to put some form of filler on first, the sort of thing you fill the cracks in walls with?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Paul

[orsonroy]

Hi,

Please can some of you experienced modellers answer a newbie question?

I am making some scenery out of polystyrene packing material, the sort you get holding a new video in the box. I have shaped it to the correct shape - lots of mess, but now I want to paint it to stop the bits falling off etc. Do I first coat it in a 50:50 mix of water/PVA glue and then paint or do I need to put some form of filler on first, the sort of thing you fill the cracks in walls with?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Paul

Just slop on a THICK layer of household interior latex paint.

[Metro_Red_Line]

Hi,

Please can some of you experienced modellers answer a newbie question?

I am making some scenery out of polystyrene packing material, the sort you get holding a new video in the box. I have shaped it to the correct shape - lots of mess, but now I want to paint it to stop the bits falling off etc. Do I first coat it in a 50:50 mix of water/PVA glue and then paint or do I need to put some form of filler on first, the sort of thing you fill the cracks in walls with?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Paul

You can paint it or singe the beaded ends with the side of a soldering iron.

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Acrylic paint works also