This is what I started with- ¾ inch thick pink extruded wall insulation. Basically foam board. Very cheap at the do-it-yourself store, a 4x8 sheet cost me $11 US dollars. I used liquid nails, a construction adhesive, to glue the foam together.

The size of this plank is 6x32 inches. It’s long enough to provide either a fore or background for the other modules when I photograph models. The flat raised area is going to be used for some type of industrial ruin.

This photo shows the wood rasp that was used to shape the foam into something resembling rolling hills. I owe this the use of this tool to the youtube guy; he suggested it was far more useful than a hot wire cutter.

I used my fingers after the rasp to smooth the rough edges of the foam. Another trick from the youtube guy…

Make sure you have a vacuum cleaner handy. The pink foam shreds and sticks to everything. I did the shaping in my garage instead of the workshop. I didn’t want pink stuff on my models.

I used lightweight spackling to fill in the cracks. Next time I’m going to glue more pink foam onto whatever I’m doing and use less spackling. It takes forever to dry and isn’t as easy to add and the foam is to carve off.

I wanted a short bit of roadway leading up to my industrial ruin; I put a stone wall alongside of it. The wall material is Plastruct; the ruin walls are Will’s sheeting.

The stairs were salvaged from leftovers from the Walther’s sugar mill.

The paint used was DIY flat house paint. The light brown is a leather color; the dark brown a chocolate. I used color swatches to find just what I needed. The roadway is grimy black. It’s supposed to be old asphalt.

The junk in the ruin- I use a number of flat primer to paint items before I use acrylics on them. The light grey or white primer is very flat and gives me an excellent surface to paint other colors onto. I also cut a bunch of 40 x60 thou plastic strips into bricks, that is what is getting the red paint treatment on the foil.

The rolling hills photographed outside in natural light. I used a Noch Grassmaster, and mixed my own flocking fibers. The flock is 40% Woodland Scenics light green, 40% Woodland Scenics Harvest Gold, and 20 % Heki light green. I also cut some light green horse hair into longer pieces that were around 8-10 mm. I wanted some variety in fiber length.

Here’s a couple a shots indoors under the full spectrum fluorescent lights. I wanted to see how the module looked before I spent anymore time adding details. I was prepared to scrape it clean and start over if the color seemed wrong.

The rest of the shots are of the finished product. I added a railing made from bullhead rail. The darker green bits are a couple of varieties of Silflor.