styrene sheets

butch · Post by **butch** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:04 pm

hi everyone

. this is my first post here. I don't know if this question has been asked before, but I'll give it a try. I bought last year a Kronos One model from Star Trek 6. anyway, I found on the site some beautiful pics of the studio model and would like to do the same with mine. so, the question is: can I use styrene sheets to make some accuracy and HOW can I work with it ? I never did that and I thought maybe a lot of you can help me on that one.

Thanks a lot
Butch

Bar · Post by **Bar** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:38 pm

You can do nearly any amount of detailing with sheet styrene.
Here are some links to stuff i have done with styrene(In no particular order...):

[url=http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g19/All_the_good_usernames_are_taken/129Partsbreakdownandhow-toguide.jpg]One
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I don't know if any of that lot will help you out, but almost all of the builds there were made ONLY of Styrene...
You can find a lot more by clicking on the WWW link in my sigline below. Give it a minute to load. There are 900 images in that folder...
Bar.

mech · Post by **mech** » Thu May 03, 2007 5:56 pm

Alot of the Kronos 1 stuff was also done with photoetch. That's not to say it couldn't be done with styrene, it certainly could. Just some of it is awefully intricate.

Bar, someday I hope to master plastic the way you have. Great stuff that.

j

Bar · Post by **Bar** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:03 pm

It's not so tough, or i wouldn't be able to do it...

Pat Amaral · Post by **Pat Amaral** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:11 pm

It's all about proportion. That's my problem. I have no sense of it.

butch · Post by **butch** » Sun May 06, 2007 8:20 pm

Bar wrote:You can do nearly any amount of detailing with sheet styrene.
Here are some links to stuff i have done with styrene(In no particular order...):

[url=http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g19/All_the_good_usernames_are_taken/129Partsbreakdownandhow-toguide.jpg]One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
I don't know if any of that lot will help you out, but almost all of the builds there were made ONLY of Styrene...
You can find a lot more by clicking on the WWW link in my sigline below. Give it a minute to load. There are 900 images in that folder...
Bar.

very nice work Bar ! I love it. I had no idea that people could make some beauties like those ones with styrene. I suppose you need a lot of practice to achieve it !

Butch

Bar · Post by **Bar** » Mon May 07, 2007 12:03 am

You'd be surprised how little practise i get...
Actually, the very first time i ever used styrene was to make new baffles for my Ertl BoP when that was very first released(I can't remember, was it about 1994 it was released?). I read in a UK modelling magazine about a great product that could be used called plasticard. The article showed how to make the baffles from 30 thou. That was the first time i used the stuff. Over the years it has become the medium of choice for me. You can make damn near anything out of styrene...
Bar.