Expanding Foam Tutorial

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• Carving

[pedroflyergt]

hi. I found your videos very cool, congratulations ... could tell me the name of the foam and freaked out for what it is that makes it bigger?

[Mogrymillian]

@pedroflyergt

Thanks! It's just expanding foam. Since I live in Germany a brand or a product name wouln't not help you. But you surely will find it at your home depot. And it's just water! :)

[2techshop]

Ganz tolle Video! Hast du gut erklaert. Love it!

[Mogrymillian]

@2techshop

Vielen Dank! :)

[RobbieHooker]

your truely a woman with artistic skills, I'v used the canned foam befor to make stuff, but I like your idea of useing the cardbord to help find where you plan to cut, instead of free handing it all. I bet it saves alot of time for the fine tuning of a item.

[Mogrymillian]

@RobbieHooker

Thanks a lot! I'm really not a good scupter and the card board helps me a lot to find the right shape. Hope this helps you, too! :)

[cycledayz]

why would i want to follow you make crap like this stupid bitch

[craigr13666]

Great video! If you're interested, an electric knife makes foam carving real easy too. I like to use coarse sandpaper (with or without some sort of sanding block) too for sculpting out, it goes pretty quick. The electric knife takes some practice, but for $12 it was a pretty good investment. Keep up the great work, love the videos.

[wyzyrddrummer]

Wow you can carve very fast.

I do have a suggestion though. Why not make a wooden enclosure that you can use that would allow you to use 1/10 of the foam. Seems to me that you wasted almost 90% of the foam when you could have sprayed a much thinner layer. When you first started, I thought you were going to make something very large. I was amazed at how little foam you had left.

If you can understand my logic and can figure out how to do this I think that it would be more economical.

[yeonsil173]

I loveee your tutorial and I can't believe it took me this long to find you. Would've made my prop making so much easier if I knew your tutorial. Anyways It's really great you are sharing your passion and I can't wait to try it out for myself!!!

[GermAsianGirl]

would you be able to use a dremel to shape this?

[boochieboy814]

@pedroflyergt

The foam is called "Great Stuff" in the U.S. $5 a can at Lowes or Home Depot.

[AimForTheTeeth]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh is that the soul caliber!?

[sullychea]

thats awesome!! is the foam light or rather heavy?!

[feote911]

Can you use sandpaper on the foam?

[brucebu]

nice video. I especially liked the time lapse. You are doing good work.