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Here's some pink foam that I started as a primer for foam scenery.  Admittedly, it's N-scale, but scale is immaterial - it's all the same, really.310

A piece of 1" thick pink foam, with 1/8" cork roadbed and Code 80 Atlas N-scale track glued to it.  A felt-tip marker shows where a road crossing over the track will be.  The rest of the pink foam surface has been grated and sanded down slightly to offer some scenic relief to the diorama.  The next step is to paint the foam with a good, base flat latex ground color suitable for the area of the country you wish to duplicate.  A grayish-tan color works for me.  Then start applying scenery materials.

 

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Here's a couple more N-scale dioramas.  1" pink foam, with some pink foam glued and carved on top of it to represent low hills.  Painted with a cheap, flat latex house paint for ground color.  Then start applying various shades of ground foam, rock outcroppings, bushes, trees, and other stuff as desired.  Pretty easy, really.

You can do this directly on your layout, or make dioramas off the layout and set them in place.  Works good either way.  Note: a shop vac is your best friend when carving and sanding foam.

Hope this helps a little. 

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