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Hey all,
I notice a lot of people suggest using for sale signs as a plastic card alternative.

All the signs here in canada are quite thick and hollow with a crisscross type of weave in the middle.

Is this the type of signs you use? How do you cope with the edges showing the visible hollowness?


Thank you,

If you actually are from Toronto, there is no shortage of hobby shops in your area. Actual sheet styrene will be much easier to work with and is not that expensive.

Canadian Tire or dollar store. There WILL inevitably be one or another store that sells signs comprised of non-corrugated plastic analogous to sheet styrene.

Yeah in from toronto,

Heavy support games has the variety packs of plastic card but I was looking for alternatives.
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Canadian tire , Home Depot, Walmart have all had the signs I talked about.

Ill check out the dollar store tomorrow.

Thanks for the input

Also there's the internet. I only know of US based suppliers, but US plastics will sell you a 48inch x 72inch sheet of .02 inch thickness for like $5 US.

Goes up a bit from there, I think the .06 was like $20, and they don't carry anything thinner than the .02.

eStreetPlastics sells smaller sheet sizes and thinner sheets.

I have no idea if they ship to Canada or how much it would be, but maybe those two places could take care of you. The overpriced stuff from hobby stores makes me sad.

The corrugated plastic signage you are talking about is made of high density polypropylene and will not stick together with polystyrene cement.

Proper polystyrene plasticard is much better for modelling if you can get hold of it.

With the corrugated materials, some will be polystyrene, some will be polypropylene. The signs are normally polystyrene, but things like some reusable packaging is polypropylene.

It is hard to make signs out of the polypropylene as most things dont stick to it at all.

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=66016&catid=715

I forgot to mention... look for the recycle logo on whatever you're buying out at a store. You're looking for #6, which is polystyrene.

Great,
Once again thanks for info.

Shipping to canada is pretty brutal in general, usually ends up being cheaper to pay the hobby store price.

Ill post when I find something for fellow torontonians :-)

JWMarines wrote:
I forgot to mention... look for the recycle logo on whatever you're buying out at a store. You're looking for #6, which is polystyrene.

Now THAT is why I read dakka!
Thanks