With the tunnel firmly in place, I built the Silver Mountain on top of it last night. Instead of foam sheets, I chose to use plaster cloths because of the large size of the mountain I wanted. I shaped the mountain using crumpled magazine pages, held loosely together with masking tape. After an issue of Wired, D Magazine and a holiday double issue of The Economist, the mountain was as big as I wanted (or actually it turned out a bit bigger!). Unfortunately, I did not have my phone on me at this stage, so I don't have a picture of the crumpled paper mountain for you - but it did look quite spectacular! Then I simply cut out palm-sized pieces of Woodland Scenics plaster cloth, dipped them in warm water, and laid the over the outline. I had bought two rolls, which was enough for about one and half layers. I wished I had some more, but the shell turned out quite sturdy and a further layer of Sculptamold may add to rigidity to the areas with just one layer. The whole process took 1 hour and 15 minutes from start through cleanup and there was no mess whatsoever. And wow, the mountain turned out bigger than I thought, but then again it is going to be the centerpiece of the whole layout.
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