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Here's a method that's not "too" messy that I've used sucessfully: Build up your landscape base with the pink or blue foam stuff, shape it using rasps, metal brushes, etc. (Okay, that's messy but a vacuum cleaner will clean it up.) After you get it to the shape you want, mix up a thin batch of Durham's Rock Hard Water Putty, about the consistency of paint, and add a little water-based paint of the background color of your choice. Apply that over the base with a disposable brush, your fingers, popcicle sticks, whatever works. (That's messy, too, but at least you don't have those big honking pieces of paper towels dripping plaster all over.) <br />You can do a lot of the above "off site", like outside, where messiness isn't such a big deal.
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