Scratch Building Supplies?

[simon1966]

I had a look in the LHS over the weekend and was dissapointed to find that there was not a lot of scratch building supplies. I was interested in sheet styrene, styrene rod shapes, windows and doors. In addition, brick papers and moulded styrene sheets. Does anyone have a favorite on-line source for this stuff. A kind of on-line one stop srtatch building supplies place?

[Anonymous]

Walthers?

Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

Micro-Mark has a superflourity of all sorts of scratchbuilding supplies for sale. One has to read their catalog to see all that they have. If memery serves, they offer the complete line of Evergreen Styrene, Northeastern Scale Lumber, & K&S engineering brass structural shapes. as well as all corts of cool little scratchbuilding widgets that would be just so cool to have on hand. Wyoming has a serious lack of good hobby shops in the state. They only have one, and they are really to small to carry many scratchbuilding supplies as the Hobby shop does more business in UPS shipping and Wood Pellet stoves than actual models.

James.

[nfmisso]

Simon;

Try Tinkertown at 9666 Clayton, just off US40 west of St Louis, Tues - Sat 9:30 to 5, Tues & Fri till 8 314-991-4311

For plastic sheet, sign companies and industrial supply such as McMaster have better deals.

[tatans]

Styrene available very reasonable at plastic stores, that sell ALL plastic, styrene, glues etc. etc , usually in bulk.

[Anonymous]

Good art supply houses like Charettes in Boston carry stuff for architect's models. Charettes has a good selection of foamcore, strip wood, plastic shapes, Xacto knives, brass channel, tubing and bar stock, "The Chopper", styrene sheets with molded in brick, and a lot of air brush stuff. Also really really small paint brushes. Prices are usually manufacturer's suggested retail price.
Craft supply houses often carry acrylic paint in a variety of shades. Big John Dalton used to swear by the stuff.
Ordinary hardware stores are good for 2-56 taps and drills, spray paint, sheet lead, and wire. Good stores will have small fasteners like #2 screws. Red auto primer makes a good brick red and a good box car red. Dark gray auto primer is good for steam locomotives, and passenger car roofs. Light gray primer is good for the undersides of shake-the-box kits. The primer's are very flat but take decals well, so long as you use solvaset and do an over spray with DullCote.


David Starr

[simon1966]

Thanks for the tips everyone..