STEP 6: ADDING IN THE 'COASTAL' CITIES:
Foamcore posterboard (sheets of foam sandwiched between layers of paper,
available at art stores) has been cut with a breakway blade to make flat
areas for the cities that are level with the water. The foam sections have
been mounted using a hot glue gun on pre-cut rectangles of plexiglass
sprayed with Model Master French blue. Notice that the 'pier' for the
river bridge has been excised and replaced with two layers of foamcore,
and that there is a 'ramp' of foamcore in the middle of the city. The road
is 600 grit sandpaper. Both the roads and the foamcore were glued down
using purple gluestick. If you try to use white glue, the sandpaper will
curl and not stick, and other glues just tore up the paint when the
sandpaper curled. The gluestick works fast, and is fairly neat and easy to
work with. The top layer of paper on the foamcore was cut with a half-inch
overlap which was then slit at the edges and contoured to match the
bluefoam terrain, then anchored using scotch tape. Touch up with green
paint will make it vanish, and was necessary for where I shaved off the
bluefoam 'pier' in the upper right, and some paint chips that had pulled
away with tape, anyway.
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