Find me a Tutorial on Closed- Cell Polystyrene

[Mitch K]

I've had a good dig around here and elsewhere, but can anyone direct me to a good tutorial on making walls from closed cell foam?  I feel a project coming on...

[traveller]

What kind of walls?

For adobe walls I just add paint with sand. Since carving patterns in Expanded polystyrene is almost impossible I use Wills plastic sheets for anything more fancy like a stone or brick wall

[Bone]

clarification first-
Expanded polystyrene: EPS,Styropor etc.
looks like little balls
Tools to use - hot wire
White glue/wood glue

closed cell foam: goes by lots of names - Styrofoam,Styrodur,Selitron,Selitac
looks like a sponge
Tools to use - hot wire,knife,cutter,surform scraper,biro,pencil
White glue/wood glue

some links:

http://www.shiftinglands.com/helmsdeep02.htm
http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/
http://gidian-gelaende.de/?cat=6

Wargames Illustrated 300 had some pages about the topic

[Mitch K]

Thanks guys.

It's closed-cell styrofoam type stuff I'm talking about, to model a couple of moderately large drystone constructions.

For one I was thinking of using thin sheet and applique'ing it onto a base made of a.n. other material (e.g. polyolefin foam like I often use), for the other (a largeish ring shape) I was going to use a 50mm sheet, cut the ring out en bloc and engrave.

[Bone]

What i love about building stuff is - lots of ways lead to rome.
Ask 10 people how to build something and you learn of at least 12 different ways how to do it.
 
Most of my buildings and walls are from 5mm selitron.For thicker walls,doubled,sometimes glued on cardboard or plywood for maximum stability.
City/castle walls either hollow or with styrofoam core.

[Mitch K]

What i love about building stuff is - lots of ways lead to rome.
Ask 10 people how to build something and you learn of at least 12 different ways how to do it.
 
Most of my buildings and walls are from 5mm selitron.For thicker walls,doubled,sometimes glued on cardboard or plywood for maximum stability.
City/castle walls either hollow or with styrofoam core.

Cheers bone, its mainly finding the best way to incise / engrave the stone patterns. I don't fancy the plaster it up and mark into the surface route!

[Bone]

Cheers bone, its mainly finding the best way to incise / engrave the stone patterns. I don't fancy the plaster it up and mark into the surface route!

Either a biro ( with black refill!) or pencils - after incising /engraving it can look nice to roll/press a textured stone or a ball made from aluminium foil over the surface.

[Mitch K]

Either a biro ( with black refill!) or pencils - after incising /engraving it can look nice to roll/press a textured stone or a ball made from aluminium foil over the surface.

Noted! I'm gonna buy some thin sheets to practice on (as well as use) so I have some idea of how it works before I work on the big blocks.

[carletto58]

incredible!

Ecco in google translate http://translate.google.co.nz/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.passionepresepio.it/tecniche&prev=search

[Bone]

Wow !        Thanks for posting.