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I often see posts about foam and plywood over L girder to hold scenery. I was completing this small section last night and thought I'd take some pics. Basically you just hot melt a web of cardboard to the joist and cover with plaster cloth. For mounting trees I will strategically place foam underneath. 








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Yeah, a good fast easy way to build a scenery framework is with a web of corrugated cardboard pieces stuck together with a hot glue gun. On my HO layout I covered it with brown paper from shopping bags, then gradually built up on that with patching plaster for a thin, lightweight scenery shell. Once you actually get started on it, the work can go fairly quick.

 

Having a basic scenery shell on a layout is such a huge improvement over open benchwork. And it doesn't have to be 'perfect', it can always be changed or improved later if the mood strikes you.

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