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Lloyd OBrien
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I was messing around building a mountainside this afternoon and tried something that worked really well. Thought I'd share the idea. ---Take aluminum foil; form your cliff, mountainside, etc, with it. You can crinkle it, put "pushout" places in it like boulders, "push in" places like ledges, and just form it however you want. Then spray paint it grey or brown; then puff on a little black here and there as well as a bit of light green (looks like moss on rocks), and other colors as you might like. The new piece of landscape can then be stapled into place quite easily at most any angle. It particularly works well in those crazy wierd shaped areas between tunnels or the like. ++++++Watch out though, your Wife gets really wacked out of shape when you use up all of her aluminium foil!!!
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Challenger
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If you add one more step. lay it flat and pour in some plaster. You will have an instant rock mold technique that has been around since the concept of using "dirt for dirt"
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Love the idea, I might have to try that, being that I'm not married....I should be safe. I have recently discovered a store in my area that sells sheets of 'plaster-paper' for use in landscape modeling. Micheal's craft and hobby (something like that)

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