BMF = Gum Wrapper??

[MPWR]

Originally Posted by CeeElle

i hadn't heard about BMF jumping the shark over time... does that apply only to stuff that hasn't been applied, or will it go south even after it's on a model?

BMF certainly does not always go bad. Some sheets go bad- or maybe they just start off bad. I certainly have not found it to be the case that it has a 'shelf life', and that it deteriorates with age. I recently finished two sheets of BMF, one each of chrome and matte aluminum. Both had been purchased in the previous century, and more than six years later both were as good as they were the day I bought them. No, I didn't do anything special to store them.

Zoom mentions kitchen foil and foil adhesive- terrific stuff. But it does also have its limitations. I had planned to go this route for foiling my S7- but I found there was no way that I could apply the foil glue without leaving brushstrokes. When the foil was burnished down, the brushstrokes were visible no matter what I did- so back to the old BMF, which worked beautifully. (On small pieces, brushstrokes are a non-issue.) Also the cheap genereic aluminum foil I bought (I got the cheap stuff because it was thinnest) had a significant grain to it- which didn't look great in scale. Your milage with foil will likely vary, and I expect if I looked more I could probably have found something better looking- but there were still the brushstrokes.

[Jay!]

Another option for the textured foil (as found in cigarette packs) intended to replicate racecar heat shield foil is cake-plate foil. Go to the cake-decorating section of your hobby shop and check it out. It's like $8 for a roll that will last you FOREVER. A 12 in x 15 ft roll is almost 2 million sq inches in 1/24 scale.

[Sixx]

I ran out of BMF one day and my hobby shop was closed and the only thing I could get was Detail masters foil.....it was crap! i'll never make that mistake again! BMF works the best for me!