RE: Terrain
From: "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" <Brian.Bell@d...>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:22:50 -0400
Subject: RE: Terrain
I have a wire cutter that has a thicker wire that forms various loop
shapes.
Very useful for doing scooped shapes such as craters, lakes,
emplacements.
Also good for crevices in the side of hills.
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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laserlight [SMTP:laserlight@quixnet.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:36 AM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: Terrain
>
> > EPS is NOT styrofoam,
>
> well....if by "styrofoam" you mean only "the stuff that fragments into
> beads at any provocation", then you're right.
>
> > styrofoam is the very hard almost crystal looking
> > stuff that is used as the basis for wreaths and such in the floral
> hobby.
> > ALL the white stuff we've used over the years to make terrain is
> EPS, no one
> > uses styrofoam, we just call it that!
> > KR, Geo-Hex
>
> Open cell, closed cell, EPS, etc, everyone calls it styrofoam (unless
> you're selling the expensive kinds--static control, or flame
> retardant, or milspec, or something--in which case you don't call it
> "styrofoam" in front of the customers). Comes in different densities,
> etc. By the way, you can get it in at least 10" thicknesses
> (something like 10x24x96") from some industrial supply houses...CE
> Thurston in my area (Virginia), I don't know how wide a territory they
> have. Or a marine supply house might call it "floatation baulks" or
> "billets".
>
> Of course, if you get it that thick, you won't be cutting it with a
> hot wire.
>
>