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High Zeke and welocome to the forum <span class="smiley">[#welcome] Keep an open mind about buildingmountain as there is alot of different techniques. Myself I choose to use materials that I already had. I used stiff wire mesh srceen. Some were 1 inch sqaures another was 1/2 and I covered the screen with dry wall tape and glued the tape with hot glue gun. then I used premixed dry wall compound it was inxepensive. I also used the compound to form rocks. I painted areas using craft paints brown and greens. I choose to use woodland senics lichen to cover different areas. In different colour greens. l used darker colours were areas would get more moisture and lighter greens were area would be dryer. Also added lots of trees. My layout is a shelf layout so what I did in order to gain access to the track incase of derailment or uncoupling was put access doors on the face of the mountains. This was easily done with wire screen. I shaped the doors to the mountain and covered them with the lichen. I also used woodland senics fine turf to make some grass fields keeping in mind the same colouring affects using a light, meduim,dark and a very light colour that simulates dry dead grass. I also seen in the other forum Track plans) there some pics of using cardboard lattices and covering them with masking tape I thought that was a neat Idea? as far as a grade goes I think the standard is 2% I would stick to that. hpoe this helps you some. GOOD LUCK!<span class="smiley">[8D]</span></span>
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