Plasti-Dip is one of the amazing products
that I use in stealing my EVA foam and
that many cosplayers use for stealing
their EVA foam but you if you're like a
lot of people you may have had this
experience you just finished getting
your cosplay built in the EVA foam
you're ready to paint you're super
excited it's looking great you go with
your Plasti--Dip if you go out there just to
have it come out with like a -+++++sputtering
mess or gets out you have like all this
like texture and bumps that come out on
it well in this video I'm gonna show you
how to get a nice smooth spray from your
plastidip so that it doesn't ruin your
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give you some tips on how to get a nice
smooth straight from your plastidip so
first things first Placid it does not
function like a primer filler it's not
gonna hide any kind of little
imperfections or gaps or things like
that or you know bumps that already
exist in your product underneath you'll
want if you're wanting to do that you're
gonna need to do some filling in your
cosplay before you go to the Placidus
because it actually goes on pretty thin
and takes on whatever it is that's
underneath so that being said I would
highly recommend and those just keep
talking about our what the foam but it
really is just an amazing product and
I'm super excited about it and it helps
solve a lot of the problems we run into
so with our what the foam the surface is
already a lot smoother you're not gonna
get textured bumpiness
to the foam just from working with it
differently like that it's actually
gonna be very very smooth right off the
bat so that's gonna help you out so I
would recommend using what the phone
because it's gonna set you off on a
great foot when you go to put your
positive down okay that being said the
next thing you want to do you want to
make sure you get a bowl of hot water I
like to just
put it in the sink turn the tap water on
as long as it can go once it gets nice
and hot fill up a bowl with hot water
you're gonna set your Placid dip in
there let it sit in there for about 10
minutes and then pull it out shake it up
if it if it starts to get a little if
the can starts to cool down and get a
little bit cooler to the touch as you
shake that then go ahead and put more
hot water in the bowl stick it back in
there for a couple more minutes and
continue that process until it stays
about room temperature when you're when
you shake the can okay and what that
does is with the Placid if nice and warm
it's actually gonna be able to Adam ice
better and it's gonna give a nice
smoother a lot smoother spray it's not
gonna glob up as it comes out okay so
that's going to help a ton the next
thing that's going to be a huge help is
when you're actually spraying it on so
contrary to some some things I've seen
with people recommending different
things for spring Placid it where they
say to do a bunch of like light coats
actually what I found to be the case is
that when you do that you actually end
up with more bumps because it doesn't
actually self level it doesn't have
enough positive on there to be able to
get a nice smooth surface so you can see
here so this I've added a leather effect
to this so the the surface kind of looks
a little bit more bumpy kind of thing
because of the leather effect in the
under the skills yeah under the scales
here in between is where is just
plastidip actually it gives a really
nice leather look and so I didn't even
mess with trying to do another paint
coat on that but you can see it's very
smooth there's not like speckles there's
no here's a good area right here where
there's not any skills it just took
exactly what was underneath and didn't
add any unwanted texture right so what I
recommend is not doing a bunch of just
light coats and trying to build it up
that way but to do what some people
refer to like that do it with automotive
things as laying down a wet coat right
so what that means is you're gonna I'm
not gonna do it in here
stuffs really stinky but you're gonna
overlap you're gonna do your sprays and
you're gonna overlap if your spray width
is like this you're gonna do your next
one where it overlaps halfway over your
previous one so if it's like this you're
gonna do that and you want to just go
around your whole cosplay and get a nice
good coat on there so I like to use the
black because it does have a sheen when
it's wet and so you can kind of tell you
need to dance the spine line between
getting a nice wet coat but not putting
too much on to where it starts to drip
especially if you're if it's something
like you know a helmet or something like
that and you have or any type of piece
and you've got it sitting there and you
have these vertical sides you want to
make sure that you're not loading too
much on to where it starts to drip
because once that happens it's really
hard to fix so you want to get a nice
coat on there to where it's shiny it's
glossy
you can tell that it's covered and wet
all along it but don't go too far to
where it starts to drip okay you don't
want to put it on too light you don't
want to put it on too heavy but you want
to have a nice good glossy looking kind
of surface once you've gone across at
that wet coat because then what it does
is actually self levels as it dries and
gives you that really smooth surface
okay if you do it in the light coats
what that tends to do is end up kind of
building up some areas and then the next
time it goes through it builds up
another area and you end up with those
bumps so to get a really nice smooth
surface you want to do a wet coat okay
and just don't go too far to where you
get drips okay so that's the basic tips
I have for for this once again start
with a really smooth surface the surface
that you want it to be because the
plastic will take what's on there and
that'll come through a second warm up
your plastidip to where it's at a nice
warm temperature so it a demises better
comes out in a lot finer spray to be
able to lay down that coat do nice over
lapping and get a nice wet coat laid
down and then let it dry
I usually if it's warm outside I do you
know fifty degrees or above I will do it
outside and
do like 10 to 15-minute wait time if
it's a little bit colder you're gonna
have to wait a little bit longer between
these coats you usually end up doing
about three three coats three or four
one thing that's super handy is with
what the foam our base coat our base
that we recommend is the four millimeter
but then we have a gray six and a red
two and the nice thing with that is
usually with those layers is that with
the red and the gray when you're doing
your plastidip you can tell ten of once
you've had enough coats because you're
not gonna see that red or gray shining
through anymore and that helps you it's
a little bit harder to tell on some
black bones because it's all black and
it's hard to be able to tell kind of if
you've gotten a good enough coat but
usually about three or four will do it I
was just wondering if you could link the
automotives yeah so I've seen some great
automotive tutorials where they use it
for just like you know doing matte
surface on cars or you know different
things like that I'll put a link in the
description as well to a really good one
where he goes through yech just see this
application in process on just a piece
of metal and so we can get a nice visual
for it I don't want to spray in here in
this small space but hopefully that's
enough to get you on your way and really
help you be able to get your class adept
nice and smooth it's works for me and I
highly recommend it great results so
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