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I don't have last month's issue at hand, so I can't answer your first question. As for the second, I don't know what the "easiest" way is, but I do know of several "easy" ways to create retaining walls. One is to use strip wood (I've used 3/32 square) to build cribbing and then backfill it with "scale-sized" pebbles, dirt, and/or ballast. Another is to apply a coating of molding plaster or plaster of Paris over your hardshell forms and then after the plaster is about 80-95% dry, hand carve stone work in the plaster with X-Acto knives, dental picks, or nut picks. A third is a variation on no. 2: instead of plaster, carve stonework in a coating of colored Sculptamold. I've used all three methods; all three produce good results provided you make an effort to keep everything - especially the stonework - reasonably close to scale. In other words, don't carve stones so large that they resemble something only the ancient Egyptians with 100,000 slaves would have used.
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