Styrofoam mountains

Foam skull mountain Halloween village display, carved with Hot Wire Foam Factory tools. Work-in-progress photos, and tips and tricks from the artist, too!

The last and final set for the Fisher Price commercial was to be a snowy, arctic type environment. Kind of like April was in Canada this year! Pfff... There was no CNC work on this set, it was all hot-wire bow cut styrofoam. This set was also fairly big for a toy commercial. 24 feet at the back end, 16 feet deep, and 16 feet wide at the front end. Most of it was straight forward, rocky out-croppings, sitting on 2" slabs of white styrofoam. All supported by some basic plywood whalers. I hot…

Using Floral Foam and Foam Paste to Model a Rocky Cliff Scenery work has begun on the N scale Pagosa & Southern! All of the rock work in this photo was modeled using dry green floral foam and my special recipe foam paste. Backdrop added in Photoshop. I want to keep things very light and portable on my N scale Pagosa & Southern shelf layout. To do that, I've set a goal of using little or no plaster and that has led to experimentation with more foam scenery techniques. I've used Balsa Foam to…

Are you a tabletop miniature gamer? The battlefield you play on might be a dining room table, but it should be more. That’s where terrain pieces come into play. If you’re playing games like Warhammer 40k and looking for terrain ideas, all it takes is an online search. Images of beautiful wargaming terrain are everywhere. […]

A paper mache mountain provides a frugal way to build a volcano for a school project or add to a model railroad landscape. Blend paper, water and glue. Build a frame and cover it with tape and the paper mache, then paint and add accessories.

Fake rocks make a stage set look more realistic. They are fairly easy to make and are much easier to move to the stage and position as desired than real rocks. The materials needed are available at craft or home improvement stores and are easy to work with. Work in a garage or on the patio to prevent making a mess in ...

Finished one set of forced perspective mountain ranges for a high desert scene on John Bursett's O-scale layout.

Tundra Biome Diorama - Made with Insta Snow, Styrofoam Mountains, Polymer Clay and Elmer’s Clear Glue for Ocean Mixed with Blue Food Coloring Dye.