Model Forum / General / Railroads / February 2009

I'm building some cliffy bits.  An armature, covered with papier
mache, with plaster cast rock moulds pressed in while the mache is
still soft, and then the gaps filled with papier mache and brushed
in with a stencil brush.  I think this is going to work quite well,
it looks a lot like the small earth sections you get in real cliff
walls, and the papier mache is flexible so should cope with
expansion better than the plaster.

But that was an idea I made up on the spot, what do others do?

Incidentally, art mache (the ready mixed paper powder stuff) is
expensive but good, you can work it well and texture the surface
with a wet hand, a paintbrush or a spatula for various effects.

Guy