Tips & Tricks

Our products are made from Foam board, which is made from a sheet of CFC free polystyrene sandwiched between two sheets of smooth acid free paper to form a strong, lightweight and rigid board with a variety of uses. It is easy to paint or decorate and it can be glued with many different types of glue. Foam board comes in different thickness, typically 3mm and 5mm, and different colors.

Because of Foam board structure, it offers different option by which it can be cut, connected and glued. There are three different ways Foam Board pieces can be connected to each other:

In some models, before gluing pieces of foamboard together some sections of the top and middle layer need to be removed. Use a small screwdriver to do so as shown in the following pictures.

Although Foam board is rigid, it can be used to create curved surfaces. The way to do that is to cut the top layer of the board and only part of the middle layer, widen the cut by passing something sharp (e.g. tip of a barbeque skewer) along the cut and bend the piece. Making multiple parallel cuts and bends can create curved surfaces (e.g. an airplane wing, or a car wheel).

It is very easy to fold a foamboard piece to create a perfect seamless 90 degrees angle. You first need to remove the top and middle layer from a section of the piece along the folding line and then fold one part of the piece.

All folding pieces necessary to create a model have an X mark on one side of the folding section of the piece. There are two ways to fold a piece, the correct one is the one where the X mark is hidden after the piece is folded, as shown at the following pictures.

Foam Board pieces can be glued together using most types of glue. The two most common glues used with Foam Board are:

You only need some very simple tools to assemble our models:

• A small knife to detach the pieces from the foam board sheet. Remember to cut the connectors on both sides of the foam board sheet.
• A barbeque skewer to widen a half cut of a piece in order to bend the piece.
• A small screwdriver to remove the top and middle layer of the foam board piece (sections of the piece which need to be removed are shown on the instructions of each model)
• Hot glue or Craft glue to assemble the pieces of the model together.

You can use your imagination to decorate your model. You can paint it, use stickers or decals, or anything else you like. For some models we will provide templates which you can use to cut out color papers to cover and decorate you model.