Weight is not the shipping cost, it’s the size. Also, it needs protection from handling in transit, set something heavy on it, when it is not on a flat surface and it could easily snap. Even a large enough quantity to have some strength would be subject to bump damage, as it is soft.
I love working with the stuff, nice thing is that less than three miles awayis a yard that brings in several tt loads a year. One bundle would do most modelers for a life time.
Good luck,
Richard
[(-D]That right Track Fiddler!
I am mad. Now lets talk about DC vs DCC and we can really have it out!
LOL[(-D]
No No I am not mad. I was tired and could not spell to save my life so I cut n’ pasted and I guess you thought the large text was ‘yelling’
LOL
Thats why I come to this forum! To get away from the yelling!
Craigs List!
Thats a great idea.
Thanks Brain
Thanks oldline. I would gladly go blue.
One bundle would do most modelers for a life time.
Richard I am curious how many sheets are in a bundle?
Perhaps I should be asking for a bundle…??
Graymatter,
Never have counted, hard to tell when they are stacked up on the truck. I think they are 4’x4’x8’ which would be 12 sheets of 2". May be down that way tomorrow, will try to remember to check.
Buy a bundle and sell the excess to other modelers.
Good luck,
Richard
I used the blue foam (from Lowe’s) for the first phase of my layout about 15 years ago. WOW has it gotten expensive. I can’t remember exactly what I paid for it but I’m thinking it was around $25-30 and even that seemed expensive to me. No way I would have paid $50 then or now but if it’s what you want, I guess you have to pay the going price. I switched back to good old fashioned 3/4" plywood for the rest of the layout. Yes it’s cumbersome but I don’t figure on ever moving the layout so I don’t mind handling it one time.
Have you price 3/4" plywood these days? It’s also a LOT more expensive than it was 15 years ago - and the quality is WAY down.
–Randy
Great… I try not to offend anybody. I’m a little cocky like my dad. Cocky is hard to decipher reading text. You can’t see the person’s facial expressions.
I actually went back and reviewed my posts here.
I gotta say there was a couple of gray areas, no pun intended. Chuckle chuckle.
I think you’ll really like working with pink foam if you can just get your hands on some.
Richard you got that straight.
Those delivery guys are in a big hurry and kind of beat things around.
Remember that old movie Pet Detective with Jim Carrey kicking the package down the hall ? I never really thought about that. Ha ha
And now that you mention it. I do remember ordering a quite a large part for my classic car. The shipping was quite expensive.
I guess the old saying Size Matters is true…Ha ha
I think I’ll fold my construction business and open an extruded foam distributorship for model railroaders in the south. Lol
The thing I like about pink foam is you can do so much with it.
This was a little experiment. I stabbed a random line accross the corner of 2 inch foam with a steak Knife about 8 10 times then just broke it and half, then I picked the tops with my fingernails on the perforations that were already there and this is what I got.
The process took about 30 40 seconds. It’s not the effect I want for rocks on my layout but I think it simulates the stone formations in the western states.
Even though I I have no use for it I think I’m going to color wash and dry brush it. I’m curious to see what it will look like.
I think I remember seeing that old ceiling tile makes good shale rocks,
Yes I’ve seen that too I might try that out on the water edges on the lake by my sawmill.
I gussed right. Checked with the yardman at the local lumber yard. All the foam comes in 4’x4’x8’ blocks, wrapped in plastic, 48 pieces of 1", 24 of 2", 18 of 3" and so on. The 2’ wide sheets still come in the same size blocks.
He said they’d ship it, I have no idea the cost.
Have fun,
Richard
never mind
True. But in many areas of California and other relatively mild-winter states, a layout built from plywood will be cheaper than the equivalent one built from extruded foam – just because the foam is harder to find and generally more expensive here than in other places.
Extruded foam is fine, plywood is fine, gatorboard is fine, etc… But availability and price factor in.
The older the tiles the better the effect
newer tiles are not made up layers like the older (20+ yrs) tile were
I did not know this.
Maybe this is why when you go into an older building you often see a missing ceiling Tile or two.
I go around to the construction sites to get mine. They usually give it to you to save room in the dumpsters, I have enough to do 2 layouts. Last haul was 3 truck loads for free and I use both blue and pink. Just make sure if it has the thinplastic layer pull it off glue wont stick to it, it has the little squares on it…
I use joint compound to cover the foam after I shape it. I put the compound in a coffee can and add water to mix it into a thin paste that I can brush it on. You can add your ground color to it as you mix it just in case it gets chipped the white don’t show thru.