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Hi, <br />I'm attempting my first model railroad layout. I've been lurking here for a little while as I've been gearing up to begin. I'm using the WGH Madison Central layout as my model (the one on video narrated by Family Ties' Michael Gross). I've got my benchwork set and glued down 2" pink Formular foamboard on top of my 4X8 plywood. Following the directions I cut out the shape of my lake in the foamboard. In the video they use 1" thick foam. Unfortunately my local Home Depot only had the thicker 2" variety. Now that my 2" thick foam lake is cut out, it really looks "too deep" compared with the rest of the foam on the layout. Making matters worse, I did try to make the banks slope toward the "water" but with a big part of my track resting very close to the lake's edge, I didn't have much room to work with. My question is whether there is any material/product that I could put into the exposed wood/bottom of my lake to help raise it up a bit compared with the height of the tracks and help not make the lake edges look too steep as well. <br />Thanks for any advice you might have. I greatly appreciate it. <br />Gregg <br />
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