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                        Cadet Chuck
                        • Member since
                          April 2009
                        • From: Longmont, Colorado
                        Kit Materials
                        Posted by Cadet Chuck on Friday, March 5, 2010 11:52 AM

                        I have seen plastic kits referred to as "Styrene" and "Polystyrene".  Are these two different things, or one in the same.  If different, do they require different cements and paints?

                        Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

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                        Woody
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                          December 2002
                        • From: Third rock from the sun.
                        Posted by Woody on Friday, March 5, 2010 12:38 PM

                        Same stuff. Styrene is just an abreviation of polystyrene.


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