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Thought I'd share a few photos updating the progress on removable shallow relief mountain backdrops.  They are constructed out of 1/4 " luan base, some with graduated 1 inch polystyrene and rock castings made out of Hydrocal to produce some depth.   I really prefer doing this work on the workbench rather than on the layout now that the track work and switch and signal wiring is completed.   The first 3 photos show the area under construction presently, the last 2 show a backdrop my daugher and I finished a couple of weeks ago.  

The entire layout is being built in irregular shaped modules that can be disassembled if I have to move again...   Takes alot longer to build it this way, but at least I won't have to start over if I am forced to move.  DSCN3398DSCN3399DSCN3400DSCN3408DSCN3405DSCN3406

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Thanks Hal,  I made all the walls.  The concrete retaining wall under the mountian is made of 1/8 inch masonite because I had no room to spare for the siding that travels under it....  

The block retaining walls are scribed on Polystyrene pink insulation.... I scribe them with a really sharp lead pencil, then emboss them with a couple of pieces of rough broken granite stones, then paint them.   It hard to see in the photo, but I built a long retaining wall under the backdrop with the trees, it's about 5 inches tall, 7 feet long....  I made that one out of pink styrene insulation also...  If I have the room (depth) I prefer to make them out of styrene.   I cut the styrene on a table saw and I use a 7 1/4 inch blade instead of a 10 inch blade because it creates about 50% of the dust as the blade kerf is really thin.   Honestly, I started making them because I needed so many linear feet,  would have cost me a small fortune to buy the precast wall sections.. 

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