Copper

The flexible meshes made out of aluminium, galvanized wire and copper wire or stainless steel wire are only woven and therefore can be freely formed into three-dimensional shapes. Custom cutting of these meshes faces the danger of the borders fraying and the loss of its cohesion – a danger, however, that decreases as the delicacy of the mesh increases.

Thin walled tubes with small diameters can be well used in architectural model making. Cutting work on the copper tubes can be done with a CIRCULAR SAW or manually with a HOUSEHOLD SAW or a METAL FRAME SAW; they take very well to soldering and gluing work can be done with two component glues (e.g. ones based on CYANOACRYLATE or EPOXY), for model making RUDERER plastic glue or UHU HARD will also suffice. When bent, the tubes will not buckle if you take the precaution of tightly filling them with SAND and closing off the ends beforehand.