anyone know how well epoxy works as a hardener for card-stock? trying to stay kinda cheap here, and my architecture class has alot of good epoxy laying around I can use...pic unrelated
>>125191In my experience in using it with miniatures, it's very unwieldy. It's going to wreck whatever colors are printed on the cardstock, and would take an exorbitant amount of work to smooth in such a way as to look good.A far better way to strengthen and waterproof cardstock would be to laminate it, and possibly reinforce it with plasticard affixed with cyanoacrylate superglue. Just work in a well ventilated area.
>>125205op here, I print out the starting template in white because I plan on painting after words, at least for this specific model. How would you go about laminating a 3d model? I know that resin has been suggested before...
I'd recommend starting with light coats of Future.or....soaking the parts in super glue after buildingor....minwax
>>125264use krylon triple thick glaze first then coat in whatever you want, the glaze will make it strong enough to handle most things
Spray-on clearcoat automotive paint
I've had some good luck saturating printed paper with thin cyano-acrylate glue. This was laser printed; don't know how it would work with inkjet printing. The CA makes it tough and hard; I use it for bearing parts in automata.
If you don't mind repainting the details on your model, acrylic gesso is good for hardening card stock. Once everything's assembled, just brush a few layers on, let it dry, and repaint with whatever color/paint/ink you want