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When glueing the foam together do NOT use hot glue or model glue, it will melt the foam (by heat or chemically) a sharp knife is fine and smaller than that silly hot cutter thing... moreover is way cheaper. the hot wire knife is good if your set on having super clean cuts. I just went to a building class doing this. the idea is glue large chunks of foam together and cut off odd little random bits to avoid the uniform lines of the origonal edges... after all you never see a nice circular or square mountian. the guy at the class was using like a plaster cast type of stuff then covering it with sculptamold tinted more blue grey and with an added squirt of woodglue. You might have some minor issues with seeing the cut edges of your paper strips... if your flocking it all over that's no big thing or if your not super concerned about it. ANother idea is rip your strips of paper slightly uneven rather than strait edges. It could hide some of the seams a bit more disgusing them as cracks of rock.
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