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Author Topic: (not) Black Mesa project - WIP (New photos Nov 13)  (Read 5630 times)

Offline odd duck

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Re: (not) Black Mesa project - WIP (New photos Nov 13)
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2010, 04:42:48 AM »
Great looking terrain piece guys! :o looking forward to seeing the rope bridge

Offline Gandalf

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Re: (not) Black Mesa project - WIP (New photos Nov 13)
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2010, 05:30:09 AM »
...I have been meaning to ask for an age where is the best place to get hold of that foam/polystyrene that every one uses for these awesome scenery pieces?...
I came across some pink insulation board in B&Q the day before yesterday in the section with the loft boards.
Jewsons also stock polyurethane foam insulation.
http://www.jewson.co.uk/en/templates/product/templateA.jsp?pageType=Product&itemId=prod350012
Have you seen the rivets on that?

Offline Connectamabob

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Re: (not) Black Mesa project - WIP (New photos Nov 13)
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2010, 07:42:04 PM »
Extruded Polystyrene Insulation is a lot more regional that people often seem to assume. Dunno why that is, either why it's available in some areas but not others, or why people are so quick assume it's ubiquitous when it really isn't.

The stuff doesn't exist anywhere within 400 miles of where I live. I'd have to have it shipped to me from out of state, and probably end up paying two or three times its off the shelf price in the process. I don't hold it against people that they have access to materials I don't, but you can only hear/read that "just get some some blue/pink foam, and..." type line so many times before the assumption starts to get irritating.
« Last Edit: November 15, 2010, 07:43:43 PM by Connectamabob »
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Online Burgundavia

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Re: (not) Black Mesa project - WIP (New photos Nov 13)
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2010, 11:27:34 PM »
Even better, the stuff Burgundavia used for this project was salvage, so total money spent on the whole thing is approximately zero (barring that we had paint/glue/sand/flocking/etc already). Zero is an excellent amount of money to spend on scenery.  ;)

More money for beer. I got lucky in that I worked for the local lantern festival, which had junk choroplast (corrugated plastic) from signs and the foam board from lantern floats that were already on their way out. Total cost for this piece was somewhere under $20 and I wouldn't be shocked if it was under $10 (CAD, about $100 american these days. I kid...)

 

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