milknsuger asked: Hey! I noticed in one of your post on here you were doing armor with vinyl do you have any tips on applying vinyl ?
Lots! There was a huge learning curve and trial-and-error. Here are a few things I discovered the hard way:
The glue is VERY FUME-Y. Be certain to have lots of ventilation or you will have a major glue-hangover.
Be careful of your work surface. The glue fumes will take the finish right off your surface (and even the writing on newspaper can be melted into the vinyl).
Get creative with your foam. Details can be worked in recesses if you use stretch vinyl and make positive/negative spaces. For the abs on my armor, I cut pieces of foam and glued them onto my armor surface, then made a template of the exact opposite (recesses) do when the vinyl was applied and pressed, it conformed.
That brings me to another tip: pressure. Glue is only as good as the pressure you apply to it.
Use pencil, not sharpie. Put the glue on both vinyl and foam surfaces and let it dry to tacky before sammichin’ - and weigh down corners. The vinyl has a habit of curling in on itself when is has glue on it…
And Goldy’s tutorial is the BEST!
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask any other questions and good luck!
