[MINIATURE PAINTING HACKS]- Packing Foam, A Product You already Have, Models, Wargaming & Dioramas

Miniatures and models for dioramas, display and wargaming almost always come packed in tons of grey foam. Because of this, any miniature enthusiast will have plenty of this stuff lying around. In this video, I am going to show you a couple simple and easy hacks to use this material to enhance your model painting skills. So don't through this useful foam away, because I am about to introduce you to the most awesome awesome miniature painting product your didn't know you already have!
If you like miniature wargaming of any type including Warhammer, 40k, dioramas, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), Black Powder, napoleonics, historicals and Bolt Action, I suggest you watch as this video.
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[@rogerjclarke]

Thanks for the dry brushing tips. I'm definitely going to adopt those techniques to improve the look of my models.

[@MiniatureLandscapeHobbies]

Happy to help!

[@Blitz9H]

Thank you.

[@MiniatureLandscapeHobbies]

My Pleasure!

[@jamesevans886]

As usual, great coverage of the topic. I have never seen packing foam used as a dry-brushing aid before. I've got a painting session tomorrow and am dying to try this out. The different manufacturers use foams with different sized air pockets in the mandatory for them it gives them different densities of support. To me, it gives me different packing foam brush sizes. The denser the foam the tighter the stippling pattern will be.

[@MiniatureLandscapeHobbies]

Interesting point! I never considered how different foams could change the results.

[@jamesevans886]

@MiniatureLandscapeHobbies Sorry for taking this long to get back to you, I've been out of the hobby loop. Although wargaming takes up most of my bench time these days, I've been a scale modeller for much long and painter of large-scale figurine (120mm +). I had been applying paint damage details on my 1/35th scale models for some time. About 10 years ago, I saw a how-to on using the same sponge method on 15mm tanks. I used the sponge material I used on my models, and the result was horrible. It was too big, large, and spaced too far apart. Repainted my early Panzer 3 and watched to video again where I noticed they were using the packaging sponge that came with the model. Funnily enough, it worked this time. So, this mistake taught me different sized sponge material for different scales. Then came bigger sponge holes for splattered mud and smaller holes for paint chips. Mistakes and failures have taught me so much over the years.

[@chrisrobinson196]

My only other use for those small bits of packing foam is to re-use them for protecting terrain/buildings when I pack them up for transport to a game convention. I varnish the terrain/buildings but I still hate them sliding around into each other, so I use the foam as a crash pad between pieces.

[@MiniatureLandscapeHobbies]

That is a good idea. When I used to do terrain commissions I did the same thing.

[@redgreen09]

well yes the stuff is a spung and good ueses hare one you did think of did by mastack ok hare is i whas uesing the foam as a speder of duhams water putty and soked up the stuff the nest dasy yes it did what doeses gets hard and it had smail bend it it so i stud it up and did its a wall i thight so i glue down to bitt of wood and did some ground work and well a wall with gress at bass yes all come down tosoking the foam in plater or durhams or some kind of stufing stuff PVA might do it to may be with grit in it and flat bit wood just littel biger the foam you get walls and cut to difren shapes or ues as filler on terrain stuff just soke it cut to shapw and befor it drys stuff in cracks well thats my think on hole thing see more as do more