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A wire brush is a good hand tool for final shaping of the foam. Get one with brass bristles, about the shape of a toothbrush only 2-3 time larger. You can find them in the plumbing section at Menard's, etc. - they use them for cleaning pipe threads or something. <br /> <br />Hot wire cutters are good for cutting out the initial shapes (yes, I know they get hot, that's why they call them that.) For cutting ravines, rivers, etc, I've taken a piece of 14-16 AWG bare copper wire, formed it into the shape I wanted, and mounted it into the ends of a soldering gun in place of the normal soldering tip.
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