Wow, timely video for me, as I am just getting into RC flying with a Bixler 2, have been scouring the internet for clear cut info about this topic, and YOUR VLOG is the clearest and most succinct I have seen to date about the topic. Thank-you...

Wish I'd seen this a few days ago.. Now I'm spackling my airliner to start over. The tunes of paint work extremely well.

Very cool tips, this is the hobby paint I see at most stores & nothing would SUCK more than having a hand built plane getting chemical melted spots. Also you can take foam particles from sand/shaping & make a "Filler" to fill up holes, cuts, or mistakes w/o having to start over.... I've not built a plane yet so I'm happy to see these different tricks now, before I do something wrong.

Great stuff Chris, I have been using tube craft paints for years. The use of these paints are unlimited. To go further as you advance it can be thinned with windsheild washer, water, rubbing alcohol added to water for speedier drying, a drop or 2 of dish liquid soap to help leveling. I also use inexpensive Home Depot samplers made to order with a scan of an exact color. It is thick and can be thinned at least 50% for spraying. Buy a cheap badger airbrush and you are ready. Or buy a good dual action airbrush for pro like jobs. After all done painting you can over spray your work with clear gloss,satin, or matter waterbase Miniwax polyurethane paint. I also finish my planes using Miniwax clear polyurethane oil base floor paint as the final coat. As a note, I found that the craft paint whites yellow over the years. Use the Home Depot white samplers instead.

Thanks Chris..More good tips for painting foam..Testors hobby paints are foam safe..Always good to know more about foam safe paints..

Thank you 🙂

Thanks DD. Very informative video. Always enjoy your videos.

Try Mod Podge, apply directly to foam, creates hard shell to spray or brush oil or water based paint. I prime after Mod Podge, but before my base coat color.

you can air brush the acrylic paint on just fine. Add a touch of washer fluid to thin the paint till it has the consistance of milk. works great.

I have a pre-painted foam model, which I am planning on touching-up with some black, blue or white paint. I was thinking about using flat Testors enamel. I understand it should be foam safe. Acrylic may be a good choice too. Thanks for the video! -Scott V.

You can use straight aerosol paint but you must keep the nozzle about 12 to 15 inches away this allows the propellant to disapate in the air and prevents the aerosol from attacking the foam. I have used aerosols on my foam planes with no side effects such as this using a 12 to 15 inche distance.

Great tips Chris

Do you have to cover it with something to seal it and will decals stick to it? I have the apple barrel matte acrylic.

Not acids, but solvents. solvents! That's why the acrylics work - they're water based.

Thank you. was wondering because I'm going to paint the twelve exhaust pipes and the six fifty caliber machine guns. Pretty fond of the warbirds and didn't want them to melt. Thank you.

I started years ago (on epo) using the poly but in spraycan and then applying sandable primer, sanded down and then the appliance epoxy, came out looking like a dream... no idea it was foam by looking at it... For the paint you are brushing on why not use an airbrush?

Great video this new info really helps. Recently I pulled an old Hobbyzone Corsair S off its ceiling mounting clipped the wings and mounted a razorback canopy. My intent is to fix it up like a Reno air racer and it's going to need a new paint job. Would you recommend removing the original paint before re-painting it and with the shellack how much weight do you think it adds to a model and would you recommend it on a high performance aircraft? Great video I'm pretty sure I got to see one of these birds out at Joe Nall on Thursday (I was the TWA shirt guy) fantastic to see how they're made.

Does the accrilic stiffens the foam ? I need something that won’t add weight or stiffen the foam.

The paint you used in the beginning was epoxy paint and it is very bad with foam. Enamel used in light coats until a base coat is layed down is safe.

Can you stop the EPO foam from blistering when it gets warm, like sitting in the sun??? 👍🖖🏻

Very helpful. thank you. So I would be able and safe to use acrylic craft paint on my P-51 foamy warbird along with others to come??

Hi. Thanks you so much for your info. Should the acrylic paints be overpainted with some sort of protective product?

So i can just use regular Arts and Crafts acrylic paint and my plane should be fine?

demon driver ..lol

What is it exactly that is in the aerosol paint that actually eats the foam?

I used Delta Creative acrylic paint, great tip from you. Can you suggest something I could paint over it to protect the paint from coming off?

Testors model masters in the small 8oz spray cans, are foam safe. Even says so on the can ;)

My problem is, painting foam still looks like foam and if you put enough paint on a plane to fill it all in you added too much weight. I'm considering using iron-on covering next.

if it is the dollar store foam dont use the poly. use regular minwax.

It will if you hold the nozzle too close!

The solution is just prime the foam with an acrylic polyurethane like Minwax. You then can use almost any paint as your finish coat with no problems.

Can I paint my seaplane with water based Polycrylic? Used mostly on water (ponds).

can u put that in a airbrush

Not Any Streaks...🤔

Hey not criticizing or anything but ur audio was off

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