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Ok anyone here have any experience building a foamcore Titan? Here's my dilemmas. I decided to use solid layers instead of cutting templates and folding or assembling it box style. So what this has left me with is stronger support on everything but. You can see the foam profiles inside and it looks pretty crappy. My question is this Short of just encasing the whole thing in plasticard or foamcore. Is there any type of filler like wood filler or something I could to apply and smooth, sand, cut whatever to make it look less foam core-y.

You can try some form of polyfiller (especially the very hard ones - the general stuff will probably be too flaky to use for anything other than a display piece).

So something like this?
http://reviews.homedepot.ca/1998/947642/reviews.htm

What about good ol' Bondo? Does anybody know if that stuff shrinks up at all?

Aside from that, you could just get plasticard and make bolt-on armorplates from that. If you have a really sharp hobby knife, a semi-free plastic material you can use are old DVD cases; the front cover in the older versions of the cases are usually a solid piece of plastic several inches wide and long that you can cut out carefully and use.

I don't really know... maybe some of their ultra tough stuff?

http://www.icipaints.co.uk/products/info/polycell_trade_polyfilla_woodflex_ultra_tough_filler.jsp

Just a complete stab in the dark as I have no idea but I would edge on the side of caution

I think I'm gonna look into some like that polyfilla. If that's not gonna work I may just have to encase it in plasticard. Which will be a ton more work than I was wanting haha. Thanks for the help so far.

Ok my plan for that didn't work out so well haha. So now back to plan a. I will be covering the Titan in plasticard. I will also be finishing the body/weapons with styrene as well. What is the best glue to use to glue styrene (plasticard) to foam core(polystyrene)? Plastic->foam isn't clicking for me haha.

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