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When we built a series of "high" terrain, we used a mix of left-over pink/blue foam from the base and some of the woodland scenics white foam. We cut each layer of the "cake" into a basic size/shape, with each higher layer being somewhat smaller (in most areas). We glued the layers of the "cake" together with a both the woodland scenics flam glu and the low temp hot glue. Afterwards, we shaped the countours of the cake with a combo of a foam knife in spots, but mostly used the woodland scenics hotwire knife. It seemd to work fine, but some advice.... - Let the hot wire knife/cutter do the work for you.... don't push on it too hard - The blue/pink foam seems to cut slower than the white foam, again, use a little pressure, but moreover, let the heat do the work - When you hit the glue, you will need to apply a bit more pressure, but it the hot wire will go through it, and we didn't see any damage or other affects to the wire. A liitle sawing action through the glue might help, or atl east it helps psychologically Best advice I can give (other than letting the knife work for you) is to buy an extra hot wire for your cutter. Nothing worse than breaking your wire 2 hours after all the hobby shops have closed.... extra wires are cheap and help with those breakages. As for making the same terrain, that may take some work. Best suggestion I would have is as you make the layers of the "cake", you trace each layer on another sheet of foam, and then carefully glue the layers in the same way for each one. Unless you are an accomplished sculpture artist, I think it would be tough to carve the foam to be identitcal... at least i wouldn't be confident in my skills to do it. But what I'd try is to smooth the contours out with wadded newspaper balls on each, then plaster over the whole thing. They won't be exact, but close.
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