What is Super Styrene?

I am not sure exactly what "Super Styrene" is but I can say that the bendable part has more to do with the thickness of the piece you are working with then anything else. I have got some styrene sheet so thin that acts like it might as well be paper, except harder to rip

Hey Karl ..... errr Doog! what ya got?

P-51 Mustang wrote:

In the January FSM armor article by Karl Logan, he wrote that he used "Super Styrene, a bendable form of styrene stock."  Does anyone have experience with this?  Where is it available? Thanks very much, Reinhard

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Super Stryene is a product by Midwest Wood Products,  the same folks who bring you packaged balsa wood and bass wood.  It is also sold by other hobby plastic manufacturers.  It is available in either sheet of stock shapes. 

From the stuff which I have seen, Super Styrene could be best discribed as a 'foamed' styrene core between solid/smooth outer covers.  Google 'Super Styrene' for the chemical name and characteristics.   It glues with your normal hobby glues.  Compared with traditional sheet styrene which is solid plastic,  Super Styrene is lighter and cuts easier with a hobby knife.  

 

 

Logan used the Super Styrene to replicate the metal frame of a seat.  Now that would come in a rather thin tubing for 1/35 scale armor application.

Thanks one and all for your replies.

 

Reinhard

Hey Guys!

Glad you saw the article and noticed this coooool form of Styrene! I will tell you that whatever the technical description of it may sound like, it is in reality NO DIFFERENT than other styrene plastic like we're all used to--it looks, feels, and "acts" basically the same, for all intents and purposes. Except it is exceptionally responsive to bending, even thicker pieces, and does not "break" or unduly deform like a regular strip or beam of styrene would.

I get it out of my LHS here in Syracuse. It's sold in a floor stand, in tubes of strips in varying degrees and thicknesses. It's a cool new product, though I'm not sure how widely available itmay be yet. I did use it to do the outside frames of my panzer's seats, as well as in small other details where I needed a bend.

If you have any in-detail questions about it, PM me or post your questions here, and I'll check the post evry now and then!

Great, now I have to buy some. Don't need it, but because it's there, I have to buy some. Doog, I wish you and this Karl Logan guy were more sensitive to my OCD

Steve