Profil „L“ 6,3 mm

An angle with a 6.3 mm leg

An extruded styrene profile with two equally wide legs meeting at a right angle. Each leg measures six point three millimeters and the whole strip is thirty-five centimeters long. Anyone who has tried to glue two flat strips into a corner knows how easily the joint slips and how hard the inner corner is to fill. A ready-made angle does away with that problem.

What modelers use it for

• Beams of halls, canopies and crane runways in station dioramas
• Frames of vehicle bodies, drop sides of flatbeds and the edges of cargo platforms
• Rims of hatches, ribs on the walls of containers and stair stringers
• Stiffening the inside of large flat surfaces against sagging

The material is white polystyrene, so it behaves just like the plastic of an ordinary kit. It is cut with a knife, snapped over an edge after a few strokes, and joined with liquid cement for plastic, which softens the edges and joins them with no filler. It can be painted directly, with acrylics and with enamels, without a primer.

In 1:35 the leg matches a profile of roughly twenty-two centimeters on a real structure, and in 1:48 roughly thirty centimeters. The size suits sturdier structures, where the beam is to be visible at a glance. For fine details it is better to reach for the slimmer sizes of the same line.

The strip is supplied singly, not in a set, and the price given applies to this one piece. It should be stored flat, so that the profile keeps a straight axis.