ARCHIDELIS offers model building plastics in many formats:

Due to the variety of forms and special material properties plastics are excellently suitable for model building. The material is available in all formats and applied in all fields of model building.

 

Summary table for the application of plastics for model building

Formats

Application field model type

Boards (th > 0,3 mm)

landscape model, urban development model, building model, interior

 

model, construction model, detail model

Films (th 0,3 mm)

landscapemodel, building model, interior model, detail model

Blocks

urban development model, building model

Rods

building model, interior model, construction model, detail model

Profiles

building model, interior model, construction model, detail model

Tubes

building model, interior model, construction model, detail model

Round cords

building model, detail model, design model

Flexible tubes

building model, detail model, design model

 

Material properties of plastics for model building:

In order to find the plastics we offer more easily we distinguish them according to their most striking characteristics such as transparency, colour and surface quality. For the processing of plastics the structure and strength of the material are of importance:

 

Summary table of characteristics of plastics and designation

Characteristics

Designation

Transparency and colour

transparent (limpid, clear), colourless to coloured

 

translucent (frosted), colourless, milky to coloured

 

opaque (light-proof, dense), white to coloured

Surface quality

smooth, rough

 

glossy, semi-mat, mat

 

mirrored

 

printed (lines, squares, dots)

 

structured (corrugated, multi-wall, groove, grid)

Structure and strength

fine-pored, medium-pored, rough-pored (density of rigid foam)

rigid, flexible (elasticity of soft foam, rubber, latex)

hard, soft

 

Technical terms und abbreviations for the category „model building plastics“:

th = material thickness

>, ≥ = greater, greater or equal

<, ≤ = less, less or equal