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Old 10-17-2008, 04:56 AM   #52 (permalink)
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Anyway, yet another way to do it would be to use pink or blue styrofoam from your local home improvement store. Cut, carve, and sand it to shape, then paint it with some latex paint. THEN fiberglass over that. The latex paint keeps the polyester resin from attacking the foam.
If you use epoxy you can apply it with glass directly over the extruded foam that you have formed, carve out the back, epoxy that, filler, sand , primer, paint.

Of course epoxy needs to be mixed very well and costs more than resin.

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