I wanted to get opinions on covering foam. Do folks recommend using sculptamold to cover the foam or just shape, paint and go ? I've seen both. I have a large mountain and I am considering using sculptamold with the rubber molds for rock formations in certain areas and leaving the other areas as raw foam. Then paint and work on ground cover and trees. I am also curios how folks deal with trees on sculptamold. Is it difficult to penetrate to set the trunk ?
Engineer Jeff NS nut
If I need to smooth it, then I use lightweight spackling. It's easy, fast, and cleans up with water.
If I don't need it smooth, I just paint and go. Sedimentary rock just gets "scratched in" with a wire brush - no additional material required. You can do igneous rock as well... cut in with a blade and break it out. Rockwork in foam is remarkably easy and fast. Just paint with acrylic paints. I usually paint with a thinned black all over, then drybrush on successively lighter colors.
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