Need assistance locating: styrene hexagon or pentagon rod, 1/4" to 3/4"

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**Ouze**

Any idea where I can find hexagon or pentagon solid styrene rods in larger sides? I'd like anywhere from quarter inch (6-7mm) to half inch (19-20mm). I searched the internetz with no success. Any color is fine.

**Kilkrazy**

Try these guys.

http://www.ema-models.co.uk/

The site is down at the moment. When it is working they have a very large range of model supplies.

**Catyrpelius**

Check out McMaster-Carr they should have something that will work.

**Orinoco**

raboesch may do them too.

http://www.raboesch.com/

**Ouze**

Thanks for the help, but I struck out on all 3. Ema-Models are too small (3mm at best), Raboesch only has 6mm at best which would be OK but I suspect shipping from the Netherlands would screw that up, and McMaster-Carr has only brass, which would work technically but is $14 apiece. mmm. I probably should have specified US or nearby. Thanks, though - I might just cut up some hey keys.

**Orinoco**

Ouze wrote:Thanks for the help, but I struck out on all 3. Ema-Models are too small (3mm at best), Raboesch only has 6mm at best which would be OK but I suspect shipping from the Netherlands would screw that up, and McMaster-Carr has only brass, which would work technically but is $14 apiece. mmm. I probably should have specified US or nearby. Thanks, though - I might just cut up some hey keys.

What are you using it for?

**Ouze**

I want to shape them into large necron crystals, and then mold them. So they need to have relatively sharp facets. I thought about either a pen or a pencil, but the facets aren't sharply defined enough.

**Kilkrazy**

I think you could fairly easily make crystals of various diameters from plasticard, filling the gaps with Milliput.

The biggest hexagonal rod at EMA is 3.5mm.

**Ouze**

I'm trying that now, though my plasti-fu is pretty weak. Thanks, though.

**Orinoco**

maybe these would help?

http://armorcast.com/store/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=crystal&x=0&y=0

**Kilkrazy**

Ouze wrote:I'm trying that now, though my plasti-fu is pretty weak. Thanks, though.

Use a piece of rod or pipe as a core.

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You can calculate the dimensions of the hex sides quite easily and cut to fit in advance.

If this all becomes too much trouble, Gale Force 9 (Battlefield In A Box) makes terrain sets of resin crystals.

**Ouze**

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I wish I had seen that last reply, before I spent hours the other day cutting up Allen keys with a dremel tool. I burned myself twice.

Thanks for the link KK.