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Mike,Running 24 gauge wire through 2 inch foam is not trivial. Umm, well. Yes it is. Quite trivial compared to the many other skills necessary in building a layout. I'm not sure why you think it's a big deal.Conduit would make it possible, but that is more of a hastle than drilling a hole in plywood.  C'mon, Joe. You can't seriously call something that takes, what, 10 seconds a hastle. If you're in that much of a hurry...The main problem I find with foam is the ridiculous expectations that are set by those who hard sell it on the web and in the hobby shop.  It sounds like the only ridiculous expectations were yours.I have tried it, expected it to save time, lower cost and improve quality.  It did none of those for me. Frankly, I've never seen anyone say it would save that much time or money. It isn't cheap and anything worth doing well takes time. As for quality, it sounds like you're blaming the tools, not the technique.My views and words about foam were formed by my own experiences with the material, not some intellectual endeavor. And mine are formed by having built three layouts with it and learning more each time I use it. No intellectual endeavor here, nor by others who post here about there ACTUAL EXPERIENCES with it.I'm not going to do a blow by blow rebuttal, but the rest of your post sounds a bit like sour grapes over bad technique. But I must add - you do realize that some "foamers" use WS Plaster cloth on top of foam, don't you? For several years I had a "how-to" posted on how to do it. Very nice results.Foam has proved to be of no value to my modeling, and has resulted in unsatisfactory results every where I have used it.  And the fault lies with the foam, of course, not the technique...The pictures I see on the web, well, I try to not be personal, but I don't see very many successes.  Others do see them, of course. And some get published in MRR...Your milage may vary, I tell it like I see it.As do I. A bias is an unreasonable, unsupportable conclusion.   In a word, no. Most biases are entirely supported by experience and are quite reasonable. I'm biased towards Guiness Stout over Bud Light. I'm biased towards not speeding when I drive. I'm biased towards using foam for scenery, but have no problems with other techniques that folks have sucessfully used and certainly don't go around criticizing them.
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