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Scratch Builder Supplies
This resource is organized by material then by provider.
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Brass Supplies - suppliers of brass materials.
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K&S Engineering - You
will find their displays at your hobby store. If you don't have a store
near by, visit the K&S web site and nail down the part number of what you
need. Then do a search in Yahoo or Google on K&S Engineering to locate dealers who sell their shapes on line. |
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Micromark - They sell
much more than tools. Their metals
section offers a variety of brass scratch building supplies. |
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eBay - Visit their brass
raw materials section. There is always a number of listings of brass supplies being
auctioned. |
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Hardware or building supply or plumbing store - Need a custom
dome? Don't forget the local hardware store. A trip to mine yielded
quite a few bash candidates. Also consider lighting supply firms offering
brass parts for lighting. |
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Scale Wood - suppliers of scale wood.
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Ozark Miniatures
- While best known as a supplier of white metal castings to the large scale
hobby, they also market a line of cedar and redwood scale lumber. |
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MicroMark - Their wood
products area offers dowels, milled shapes, plywood, wood sheets, wood
siding and wood strips.
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eBay - Do a search on scale
wood from their home page. It will point you to a number of auctions in
various areas of their Web site.
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Styrene - Suppliers of styrene.
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Evergreen -
Claims to be the world's largest producer of styrene plastic shapes, strips, and
sheet materials in metric and inch sizes. Your hobby store
probably has a rack. If not, do a search on their name to nail down
suppliers who sell on line. |
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Local Plastic Supplier - Look in your yellow pages for a
local plastic supplier. You can often buy large styrene sheets
from these suppliers at a much lower cost per square foot than the
materials purchased at the hobby store. |
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Plastruct - Claims to be
the worlds' largest supplier of scale model parts to miniature scale model
building. Your hobby store probably has a rack. If not, do a search
on their name to nail down suppliers who sell on line. |
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