Craft Metals for Scale Modeling
Precision craft metals are essential for achieving authentic detail in scale models. Whether you're building aircraft, armor, ships, or dioramas, metal tubing, rods, and wire provide structural accuracy and fine detailing that plastic alone cannot replicate.
Aluminum Tubing
Lightweight and easy to cut, hobby aluminum tubing from K&S Metals is available in eight professional-grade diameters with consistent 0.014-inch wall thickness and 12-inch lengths. Perfect for aircraft fuselage detailing, antenna masts, and structural armatures in dioramas.
Brass Tubing, Rods & Wire
Hobby brass metals include round and square tubing, streamline profiles, and bendable fuel tubes from K&S Metals and Trumpeter, plus phosphor bronze wire in diameters from .010 to .040 from Tichy Train Group. Brass is the modeler's go-to metal for rigging, railings, gun barrels, and photo-etch detailing on ships, aircraft, and armor.
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Copper Tubing
Hobby copper tubing from K&S Metals is available in five diameters ranging from 1/16 inch to 7/32 inch. Copper's natural color and malleability make it ideal for plumbing details, steam lines, hydraulic systems, and authentic metalwork on ships, aircraft, and armor models.
Combining Metals for Complete Metalwork
For the most versatile modeling toolkit, combine aluminum, brass, and copper tubing to match the material properties of the real-world components you're replicating. Each metal offers unique working characteristics suited to different modeling applications.
