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We are building our first layout with woodland scenic risers & inclines. The best parts are that you don't have to think about doing math in the middle of the night when you are doing inclines. Having used both risers & inclines on top of the thick pink/blue foam we used as a base, it easily allows you to make decent changes in terrain for canyons, rivers, etc. If you go this route, you really should consider buying a couple of boxes of the woodland scenics foam nails.... they are long enough to get through about anything and will help you keep things where they belong. The only downsides to the woodland scennics stuff are: 1) it's pricey (but it makes life easy enough that it's worth it) 2) Your hobby shop will always be out of some thickness or incline, and you need that last bit to fini***hings up 3) The paper thin part where an incline starts always tears off, so yo'll have some messing to do to put it back where it belongs (I'm sure having a 6-yr old helper had nothing to do with this) Our process was (after drawing the track plan down on the base) was to put some woodland scenics glue on the bottom (it has a longer working time), pin the risers (and then re-check the track, if you are paranoid), and then hit the edges with some hot glue (the low temperature stuff). We'd usually leave the foam pinned overnight or most of the day, to help with the setting of the glue. One other piece of advice, if you are using inclines, rememb er that each % grade ends at a different height (1/2", 3/4", etc.) In otder to keep increasing your incline, you lay the next incline on to of a riser that has the same height as where the last incline left off, so you are building a sort of layered cake or something.... this is where planning a bit on what you are doing, and making sure you have purchased stuff you didn't think you needed comes in (and realizing that your hobby store is perpetually out of something) ;) Hope this helps a bit.
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