What to with foam cubes from trays?

[katie]

What do people do with the foam cuboids which come out of the miniatures slots in storage trays?

Are they recyclable? Can they be used for anything?

I've got THOUSANDS of them and I've already used them to pad pretty much everything that can possibly ever need padding...

Filling landfill with them seems wrong somehow...

[Nikfu]

I give them to my kids, they stick them on their heads and seem to have mich Fun. But somehow my wife disapproves 

[Dr DeAth]

Stick them in an old coffee grinder with a blob of PVA and some green paint and make foliage clumps with it.  There's tutorials out there if you google it.

[Mason]

Stick them in an old coffee grinder with a blob of PVA and some green paint and make foliage clumps with it.  There's tutorials out there if you google it.

Now that is a bloody good idea.
 

[Silent Invader]

I've used them as the sub-layer for bits of terrain. Make a mound from foam stuck together with Bostik, PVA some paper over, texture with filler, etc.

[OSHIROmodels]

Fill the bath with them for a 'foam pool' for the kids 

Or do the foliage thing 

cheers

James

[Steve F]

I'm sure I've seen someone paint digital camo by dabbing chopped up foam pads, almost but not dry of paint, on to the model. It was effective, but I can't think where I saw it.

[OSHIROmodels]

The foam is very useful for weathering of rust and paint chips etc using the method you mention Steve.

cheers

James

[katie]

So I was thinking about this and came up with an idea for some of the larger blocks...



Smoke markers!!!

It needs a bit of work on the sculpting, but they're easy to make -- there's just three inch washers hot glued to the bottom to make it stable.

[katie]

(Oh yeah, ignore the tank's naffness. It's a cheap toy -- I bought tons of them to practice airbrushing on).

[dampfpanzerwagon]

Break them up and used them to paint camouflage on models.

See this link;
http://www.wwpd.net/2016/03/bolt-action-review-painting-guide-long.html

Tony

[dbsubashi]

I echo the sponge painting idea. I also use them to clean up white glue on mdf buildings. Just wet them a bit and slowly work over any excess glue. It will reconstitute and wipe off. And then you just throw them away, and haved used the "nice" kitchen sponges.

They can also be used for trees. Cut them into clumps and glue/impale them onto your tree armatures. Whether you then just dry brush them in greens, or glue on flock/foliage is up to you. Perhaps you can make coffee grinder foliage to glue to your trees!

[von Lucky]

Ecoe the smoke and explosions suggestion:
http://jayswargamingmadness.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/explosions-and-craters.html
http://craigswargamingblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/more-smoke-markers.html