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.

 

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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