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someone had a sheet of what looked like door screen but the squares were bigger.
it made cool grating for floors.

do any of you know what im talking about and where i can find it?

I believe your're looking for 'nanny grating', a sewing/knitting aid. If you google the term, it'll come up in relation to miniature building and converting

Do you mean this stuff?



You can find it pretty much anywhere. All arts and craft stores have it, and most big box stores.
I think its just called plastic mesh, but it's also known as "granny grates".

awesome guys, thats exactly it.
thanks so much!


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i found this on theminiaturespage, it shows a comparison of all of the sizes... hopefully it stays up.
if not it looks like #7 mesh is the way to go.

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=303750

Plastic Canvas is what it's also known as.
Find it in the needlework aisles of haberdashery stores. It's for the wool based needlework (the cottons use a much tighter weave.)

I was that guy. Post a pic of what you are looking for (I use a lot of things like that) and I'll tell you exactly what it was.

Just a heads up...knitting mesh or whatever you want to call it is tough to adhere to things. It's an ideal material for texturing, but you have to find a clever way of genuinely pinning it down (if you can hide heavy globs of hot glue or something that can work). Generally normal glue, and even super glue does a poor job of making it stick to stuff.

If someone has a trick to gluing it (outside of hot glue, epoxy, etc.) please do speak up! It's good cheap material but I've struggled to use it as planned.

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Just a heads up...knitting mesh or whatever you want to call it is tough to adhere to things. It's an ideal material for texturing, but you have to find a clever way of genuinely pinning it down (if you can hide heavy globs of hot glue or something that can work). Generally normal glue, and even super glue does a poor job of making it stick to stuff.

If someone has a trick to gluing it (outside of hot glue, epoxy, etc.) please do speak up! It's good cheap material but I've struggled to use it as planned.

I used glue from a spraycan (which was less a fine mist and more like spiderman webbing) and it's not come loose yet, though i haven't exactly gone around attempting to peel it off. The downside to it is that until the grating itself is painted it will be sticky to touch.