Well, I'm sort of joining in this weekend. I say that because some months back I had an idea(and should have gotten what I needed then, but time was short). I had an idea to make my own coal loads for my Lionscale B&M Hoppers.
At work, one of our vendors is always sending in this foam as packing with their stuff and I thought this would be great to pop as a base for making carloads. I figured to cut it to size, shape it, spray paint it, then work on gluing the coal to it. I had also thought of making a jig to pop the foam in when gluing the coal in so I would have control of a potential mess. I have to wait until I can get stuff. Any thoughts on how to make this work great?