I've seen many customizers use something called styrene. My question is what is it exactly, how flexible is it, and where do I find it? I heard that it is basically a plastic sheet, but all the info I find on styrene says it's basically foam. Which can't be right, because that doesn't seem very useful for hard surfaces.
best and cheapest way to get a hold of sheet styrene is plastic for sale signs. dollar store and hope depot like places have them. it's styrene in a sheet form.
How can they not know what it is? People use it for doll houses, railroad modeling, that would be one of the first things you think they'd know. Sounds like shoppnig at homedepot around here for common items and they look at you like you're an alien. Sadly the craft shop here doesn't have any since its mostly sewing and such.
Its the plastic used in most model kits and it goes from super thin to pretty thick. it is mostly in sheets, round bar or square bar or tubing. hobby shops should have it or look here: http://www.evergreenscalemodels.com/
Where do you buy it? I thought Hobby Lobby but they have no idea what it is. a hardware store? also what does it look like? some forms of hard foam are called polystyrene, but that's not the stuff I see customizers using. from what I can tell it's supposed to be just plastic. is that right?
It's pretty flexible but it doesn't rip easaly. It can be painted and markered on. It's good if you want to make a kilt or a fin on a figure. It's not very good fore capes because it's flat while capes shoold have wrinkles in them in order to loock like cloth. The only thing I don't like about this stulf is that if you buy the thiner pieces of it they can get scratched up easaly.
Please wait...
Then they just say "yeah we don't have it."
Quite annoying.
http://www.evergreenscalemodels.com/