Plastics
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 |
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opaque (light-proof, dense), white to coloured |
Surface quality |
smooth, rough |
|
glossy, semi-mat, mat |
|
mirrored |
|
printed (lines, squares, dots) |
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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