A giant block of what?

DrakeRunner

Not so critical as my last request, but you probably want to know whats going on. My dad used to do a huge miniatures diorama back in the day, I mean like 70 of the little guys. He kind of wants to do a new one, but the main part of the diorama was a block of foam the size of a fridge. I have absolutely NO idea on where to find one. Anyone got a clue?

bowen

Maybe http://www.generalplastics.com/products/product_detail.php?pid=19& ?

theclam

You can always go to a hobby store and get lots of smaller pieces of foam, then glue them together.

Improvolone

Large pieces of foam get expensive. Very expensive.
You probably have some sort of foam dealer near you (check Google Maps). Figure out a small enough size of foam to buy, and either use those or glue em.

Daenris

You can buy fairly sizable pieces of foam at many craft/fabric stores. In many cases these are softer than what you'd likely use for miniatures, but I've seen large pieces of harder foam there as well.

But as mentioned I'd recommend smaller pieces and glue, as you waste less then as you're cutting away anyway.

meeker

Not sure where you would get it, but I always see Mythbusters make their own foam shapes using quick drying foam and a mold.

DragonPup

You might also look into platicard(aka, sheet styrene).

Improvolone

meeker wrote: »

Not sure where you would get it, but I always see Mythbusters make their own foam shapes using quick drying foam and a mold.

A lot of their stuff is made out of dense white foam. Their shark, and dolphin I think, are made nearly 100% out of that foam. I don't really know what quick drying foam you are talking about.

Pheezer

Pull out your local yellow pages and look around. Any city with any kind of manufacturing industry will probably have a few local businesses that specialize in packing materials for industrial purposes and at least one should deal in foam. Whether you can find a local place that does large blocks of foam or uses it as a raw material and could sell it to you, that's a matter of luck.

Al_wat

Improvolone wrote: »

meeker wrote: »

Not sure where you would get it, but I always see Mythbusters make their own foam shapes using quick drying foam and a mold.

A lot of their stuff is made out of dense white foam. Their shark, and dolphin I think, are made nearly 100% out of that foam. I don't really know what quick drying foam you are talking about.

Maybe he just remembers it as quick dry because in the episode it was *cut screen* done!

ilmmad

So that site posted offers 40 pound per cubic foot density foam.

Awesome

Asher

High Density Insulation Foam, the blue or orange stuff is often used for scenery making and dioramas by wargamers.