Modeling foam

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Modeling foam

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I know that this is a little off topic for this forum...but I gotta give it a try....nothing ventured, nothing gained so they say.

After recieving a Wierd-oh kit for Christmas ( Leaky Boat Louie) from my daughter, we've decided that she and I will do some fun modifications.

One thing we want to do is replace his white plastic glass with a clear glass with some 'mystery' liquid....only problem is....this 'mystery' liquid needs a decent foam 'head' :wink:

Here we run into a problem...how to effectivly model beer like foam???

Anyone have a good suggestion for pulling this off?
HELP ! :?



Please ??

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A teeny-tiny drop of insulating expanding foam from a can? How you would get just a tiny drop is the hard part. Smooth-on and the other resin suppliers sell a two-part expanding foam that you could mix in very small quantities but I think that'd be expensive overkill unless you could use the rest of the package on other projects.
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Believe it or not, I've known someone to use Cool whip. Is it airtight? If it is, put a little more cool Whip in there than what you want, put your "mystery fluid" in, and wait. The cool whip will dry out, shrink a bit, and then look like beer foam. Just keep it out of direct sunkight. It'll yellow and evaporate.
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Joseph Osborn wrote:A teeny-tiny drop of insulating expanding foam from a can? How you would get just a tiny drop is the hard part. Smooth-on and the other resin suppliers sell a two-part expanding foam that you could mix in very small quantities but I think that'd be expensive overkill unless you could use the rest of the package on other projects.
A tiny bit is actually easy, squirt on to some waste paper a bit of foam and dip a tooth pick in. If you do this really quick when the foam is really liquid you can really control the small drops which then expand evenly
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