LMFAOSchwarz
Sr Member
Re: Space 1999 Eagle Transporter Build Club UPDATED 21/04 (PIC HEAVY!)
I get my foam core board from a local stationary store. It's not useful on all projects, but I find invaluable at times. It's also rather inexpensive. It comes in poster-sized sheets, and it's the same stuff a lot of people use to stick photographs on at birthdays and memorials. You see them also on CSPAN a lot, when some congressman will have a chart or other visual aid on a board behind him while he goes on justifying how they spend all our money so poorly!:confused
The styrene and model stuff I get one town over from me, at a craft and hobby store. It's the kind that sells models, radio-controlled accessories, little rubber tires, airplanes, brass and aluminum strips, paints, glues, and of course styrene plastic. It comes in sheets of varying thicknesses and textures, and also rods both square and round. It's the most handy building material I've yet used, and can be cut, sanded, painted, drilled, heated and bent..you name it. One of these days I'll post some pictures of some of the various model miniatures I've made, just to give you an idea of the possibilities. I'm a modeler of moderate ability (unlike some of the creative geniuses on this site!), but the styrene definitely allows me to stretch my possibilities beyond what I once thought I could.
And cardboard, of course, you can get practically everywhere!! :lol
Oh, at first I thought my store had gone out of business since I'd stopped modeling for a while, but an internet searched confirmed that they had simply moved across town. But I do recall seeing at least several Texas locations for similar supplies. If it wasn't so late I'd give you some of them I saw, but I'm sure you can search "hobby centers" as well as I can, plus you know where you are located. Houston alone is like the size of my whole state, so anything I'd tell you could be light-years from your location!
I get my foam core board from a local stationary store. It's not useful on all projects, but I find invaluable at times. It's also rather inexpensive. It comes in poster-sized sheets, and it's the same stuff a lot of people use to stick photographs on at birthdays and memorials. You see them also on CSPAN a lot, when some congressman will have a chart or other visual aid on a board behind him while he goes on justifying how they spend all our money so poorly!:confused
The styrene and model stuff I get one town over from me, at a craft and hobby store. It's the kind that sells models, radio-controlled accessories, little rubber tires, airplanes, brass and aluminum strips, paints, glues, and of course styrene plastic. It comes in sheets of varying thicknesses and textures, and also rods both square and round. It's the most handy building material I've yet used, and can be cut, sanded, painted, drilled, heated and bent..you name it. One of these days I'll post some pictures of some of the various model miniatures I've made, just to give you an idea of the possibilities. I'm a modeler of moderate ability (unlike some of the creative geniuses on this site!), but the styrene definitely allows me to stretch my possibilities beyond what I once thought I could.
And cardboard, of course, you can get practically everywhere!! :lol
Oh, at first I thought my store had gone out of business since I'd stopped modeling for a while, but an internet searched confirmed that they had simply moved across town. But I do recall seeing at least several Texas locations for similar supplies. If it wasn't so late I'd give you some of them I saw, but I'm sure you can search "hobby centers" as well as I can, plus you know where you are located. Houston alone is like the size of my whole state, so anything I'd tell you could be light-years from your location!
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