Website for big modules built entirely of blue foam

[marknewton]

Aerodynamic Developments, at Wetherill Park in Sydney. Email me with your contact details and I'll send you a price list.

Cheers,

Mark.

[bob@osd]

Boy, I'm glad I checked this thread out. Not only did I learn a lot, I feel that I got all my frustrations out vicariously as well. Would any of you object if I built an around the wall, multi-level layout of 2" foam with an on-the-edge border of overlapped 1/4" plywood (the wall is 25' long) supported by 1/2" plywood gussets, with peninnsulas produced in a similar fashion and supported by 2x2 legs (lower level) and hung from the ceiling ala Bruce Chubb's tree idea. I'd ask for anybody's list of essentil foam-working tools but I am afraid the U. N. is busy with other things right now and I don't want to burden them. Bob T

[Free-mo Tim]

Bob,

     Your layout construction idea sounds similar to Bill Darnaby's (Think Maumee Road!) I'd recommend you read his construction articles in MR. The first one is in the March 1995 MR, page 80. The techniques are more for a "fixed in place" layout rather than modular / sectional (IMHO).

     When you ask about "essential foam working tools", are you talking about how to cut the foam to fit the space or tools used to shape it for scenery? For the basic cutting, we've used a table saw (outside if at all possible) with a plywood cutting blade. There is little kerf (proper term?) on these blades so the dust is held to a minimum. This makes quick work of a 4 x 8 sheet of foam.

Hope this helps!

Regards from Ohio,

Tim 

 

[bob@osd]

Tim, Thanks much for the direction. I'll check it out. Kerf is the right word. I know that bread knives will cut a circle if you're not careful and steak knives with both sides hollow ground work but are sometimes too short. I haven't found the ultimate cutter yet. What else do you use for shaping?  Bob T

[reklein]

For straaight cuts in 2" blue or pink foam all you have to do is score with a utility knife,and snap it off over the edge of a table. By score I mean set the utility knife to its longest setting and make one pass along your marked line. No Mess.