Whenever trying to visualize the build blocks of matter as either particles, waves or both I like to think of it like this... They're waves. Waves that at moments act like particles. But the thing of it is, the world as we experience it is made up of those moments.
It's sort of like Plato's Allegory of a cave where he imagines people chained to the wall of a cave, and the only experience they have of the outside world are shadows they see cast on a blank wall they are facing. Since that's all they see, they come to believe the shadows are all there is to reality, while really it's only a limited view - much like our own senses provide.
Now, with experimentation and reason we've come to understand that there is a whole other world behind particles of our experience, and they're just the shadows cast on our wall.