QUOTE: Originally posted by tfox60 The truth is that the solid foam, while having some very nice qualities, does not cut, form, sand, smooth, or dig very well.
QUOTE: It's primary advantage is weight, or lack of it.
QUOTE: However, if you need ditches or other inground characteristics, the foam will have some not so desirable charcteristics. Such that, it does not like being dug out, as you must do to accomplish some of the desireable features we want on the layout.
QUOTE: cut the foam a bit narrower and put the ditches in the hardshell ground cover that needs to be done after the trackwork is mostly finished.
QUOTE: It is possible to round the corner of the foam then use the ground cover to form the ditch. This will produce a better transition from the stone roadbed to the mostly dirt ditch. It will also be much cleaner and faster.
QUOTE: I have never used much foam on the layouts I have built in the past. I can see a wider use for it on my next layout.
Ray Breyer
Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943
Marlon
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daschilling ------ CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN -------- in S Gauge!
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Bruce in the Peg