Re: Terrain

On 12-Apr-01 at 02:00, Laserlight (laserlight@quixnet.net) wrote:
> > 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.

If you search the net you will find articles where sailboard fanatics
are making their own foamcore sailboards, they start with a hot
wire cutter.  The blanks are thicker than 10".