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Whole aircraft and yachts have been built with nothing but thickened laminating epoxy for bonding, the filler being chosen depending on the mechanical requirements of the bonds. Foam is pretty soft compared to cured resin, so a high strength bond isn't needed here, if something breaks it will be the foam anyway. Applying some "micro" (resin with lots of microballoons and maybe a little fumed silica) to the foam surface with a squeegee will fill the tiny bubbles and voids and provide an excellent mechanical bond to the foam exceeding the foams' strength and a good chemical bond to the laminating resin. Very lightweight, too, which doesn't matter here but might matter if the thing that you're building is supposed to fly. If I can I try to avoid buying yet another resin which takes away room and will end up getting old on the shelf, try to do as much as possible with the least amount of different resins. Actually most work can be done with just one laminating resin (bought in bulk amounts) using different suitable hardeners and fillers, including infusion, wet layup and gluing things together.
12500cps is VERY high viscosity. Infusion specific resins have 150-400cps, the usual laminating resins 600-1000cps. The "150" should work, but it's not absolutely necessary.
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