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there is a way to get more detailed vacuforms, just none of us are really set up to try it. Its basically negative pulling. Instead of starting with a positive of the car and pulling plastic over it, which makes the interior of the car more detailed than the exterior, you use a negative of the var and pull the plastic into it... Little more difficult to get good draw dow, usually requires a few well placed vacuum holes in the negaqtive mold, usually in the window areas if the windows will be cut out. This leaves the OUTSIDE of the vacuform as the more detailed side. I've seen some still done this way with thinner styrene instead of the .02 PETG that most of us use. The detail is really good. Not quite as good as the resin, because you still have all the same issues with undercuts and the like, but better than regular vacuforms.

As far as where to get the plastic.. Someone onhere pointed me in the direction of Industrial Plastics. I buy my plastic in 4x8 sheets and cut down to 8x10. I get enough for about 150 pulls for about $40, so its reasonable. They have recently fixed their website to actually use https, so its safe to order online now. I just wish I had time to actually play with this stuff right now. Ive had plastic sitting here for about 3 months and have not had time to vacuform the new G-Machines I have picked up in the meantime, or to play with what I had...Got a cool looking elCamino that's begging to be closed off in the back and vacced, but there are only so many hours in the day.

hey folks.... haven't been around much for a few months, (since like the first of the year or so) but I see a light at the end of this tunnel. Taking the last class I need to take now to finally complete my degree (on the 22 year plan, figure I had to get it before I was over 40, since I missed the "have to get it before I turn 40" deadline ;-) and the new version of my product at work ships mid August, and with the baby getting older and not being quite as high maintenance as he was (wow, a year old now) I might actually have some time to look at my slot cars again.... Thinking of redesigning the track to reward myself when things lighten up.. You guys have not heard the last of me.... don't even think of it... I still check in and read topics that catch my eye, so you may bee me around a bit here and there, but expect more of me than you can handle when things clear out a bit.

Bill