If you are a very creative person and whatever you build is fun for you, you will see something, I gaurantee it! Oh What might it be? A building part. Part of a ship? Maybe Schurzen for that King Tiger? Who knows? Just keep looking at that sheet and you will see something.That goes for you Gundam folks too!
The last time I did it, I saw tyhe whole shspe of the trailer I am buuilding and where the windows would go. It worked too! The trick is to be able to visualize what it is you want,How much of the sheeet you will use and how much useable scrap you will have left. Airplane and Ship guys sometimes open spaces. The smaller left over bits can become the fiddly-bits inside that cutaway.
Did you know that if you are careful, you can use about94% of the sheet and then you wind up with all this small stuff.zDon’t throw it away. You can still get some use as braces, parts and pieces of the machine you built or just debris around a scene of destruction.Even there you can use the last of the sheet’s remnants.Aircraft leave all kinds of non aircraft looking stuff when they hit the ground unexpectedly!
I can not visually identify the composition of the sheet. I assume it is mostly polystyrene. You tell me, TB, what IS thr makeup of the styrene sheet we pick up at hobby shops?
The idea of my post was not to identify the Chemical Composition, but, to see if anyone could picture, when looking at a sheet of Evergreen Plastic what they could see getting out of it .Wings? Hull parts? Etc.
To be able to visualize what goes where and how many useable pieces we could get out of it. The sheet itself is 10% Polyvinyl Chloride and 90% Polystyrene esterphylic resin. Ie-The whole sheet is Polystyrene to us. Now-That said, how many workable pieces can you get out of the sheet on a good day?
Heh heh TB, when I read the title of your post, I immediately thought about that Geico commercial where Pinocchio was a motivational speaker telling the crowd “When I look at this crowd, I see potential. Your sir, have potential. I…uh, see…potential. Oh boy…”
When I look at a sheet of styrene, I see potential! [:P]
So what type would I need to use to make a canopy for an aircraft model that needs one? It would be my first time making something like that so I would appreciate a few pointers.
Well, what part do you need? Gear doors? Armor Schurzen? What ? It’s in there. You just draw the pasrt on there cut it out and finish and install! Geez, you knew that!
For BrandonK:
hey! Gotchya! Some styrene is made from sustainable products not oil.I can tell by the texture when sanding or cutting.! And besides Styrene can be made from vegetable oil too!