MOTM

droscar@... writes:

>>Is this balsa or spruce? (both are common in model airplanes). Balsa this 
thin would be REALLY soft.<<

From all my childhood experience with balsa, it sure seems like it.  It's 
light as a feather and can bend and flex quite a bit.  If spruce fills those 
specs then it could be spruce.  The package doesn't say.

>>What you want here is Sentra. It's high-density PVC foam. Looks like a
cross between acrylic (only softer and much easier to work) and foam core
board (much stronger and more flexible, and can be bent with heat). They
make it with both matt and gloss finishes, and a variety of colors,
including black.<<

If that's the big poster size stuff I also saw in the hobby/art store, then I 
might know what you mean.  Maybe I'll have to take another look, but the foam 
center looked like it would compress and stay that way if squeezed.  And it 
didn't look like something that could be cut down to about 1/32" thinkness.  
Though I did also buy a white adhesive vinyl sheet with a slightly shiney 
finish that I can cut to any size and stick it on the modules like the 
drafting tape some people use.  But black is not the color I want as that 
defeats the purpose of visual module separation.

-Elhardt