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Hey guys!

I was wondering, do plastic card use to do models is Styrene? Is it something more specific then styrene? Because they sell a A4 size for nearly 10$ at my local gaming shop and i need to build a lotsss of orks transport :-)

I found a local plastic retailer that sale styrene for a lot cheaper in 4'x8' sheet. Perfect for my CNC machine.

Is there something different with those evergreen sheet and those "manufactur" sheet?

http://www.evergreenscalemodels.com/sheets.htm

http://www.emplastic.com/product_details.php?ref=142&product=42

Thanks!

Nope, nothing really different with the smooth card versus sheets. Most people who do a lot of scratch building will buy the sheets and then augment those with detail parts from Evergreen or Plastruct (or other supplier like JTT).

You will want to make sure you are getting sheet styrene and not something like PVC though. The PVC is fine - provided you know what you are working with (I prefer it for many things) - but if you are expecting styrene...you will want styrene.

So exept the tickness, nothing to specifý? A saw polystyrene as well, not the same thing right?

The polystyrene may well be the stuff too (though it could be something along the lines of XPS). The downside is that although there is some agreement of what to call things at the manufacturing side of things - retailers will often name things what they call them. This can lead to a bit of confusion. If the thicknesses are pretty thin though - then it will generally be the plasticard polystyrene. If they are pretty thick (2" and thicker) they are probably foam.

I get all my stuff from here:

http://plastruct.com/

About any kind that you want, even textured sheets!