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I'm an el cheapo modeler. I buy the cheap foam pillows($5) at Walmart & grind up the foam in my rr blender. I also have a blender in the kitchen. I add water while I dump in the foam. Sometimes I have to grind it up 2 or 3 times to get the sizes down to whatever I'm using it for. Then I take a med. sized plastic container( 3 or 4 gal.) & put the foam into a premixed water/color solution. I buy the water mixed paints at Walmart(U can also use latex) like the larger $1.67 colors. I mix a color at 60% color to 40% water. Dump in the color & mix it up real good & let it sit for about a week. Then I spread the colored foam out on about 3 layers of newspapers & let it dry for about a week. I've timed myself at blender grinding pillow foam. It takes about 2 hrs. to do the first grade & then about an hr. to do each grade of foam after that. You can get it pretty fine if you work at it. If I could figure out how to get photo's on here I would post a few. Otherwise email me & I will send you a few photo's of foam ground cover. Larry
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