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Well, the mountain was a flop. About a week before the fair, mom and kids were called away due to family emergency. We tried to finish the mountain the last couple days before it had to be displayed, but it was just too frustrating an experience. We were trying to put plaster over the mountain...

Thanks, Jon and Woodie...:thumb: Next question...the base needs to be temporary, since the mountain will most likely taken off this 'display' base and transferred to a larger diorama . I was thinking 1/2" plywood with dy-wall screwsfrom below holding the mountain in place. But how to...

Woodie, thanks for the ideas. As for the snow, I was thinking spray glue topped with flour. Some sprinkled crumbled foam-board insulation for texture where needed. Or perhaps the latter topped with the former. I hadn't thought about the spray snow, although there may be a question of...

Thanks, Jon. Would you use a standard plaster of pais mix on the paper towels?

My son is in the middle of his first h-o gauge scenery project, a mountain with a snow-cap and stream. Not to scale, its about 2.5 x 1.5 x 8. Anyway, so far it's made out of paper mache-covered foamboard. He wants to go ahead and paint it, but it would seem to me that there should be another...