Outstanding video.

 I'm going to have to try this method on my n scale layout. Problem is I can only get 2" Green foam down here in New Zealand. Hopefully it will cut the same way as the blue and pink foam

These are some of the best "how to" videos that I have seen! Thanks for sharing.

Great!   Now I have to go carve some rocks.  Those look too good not to be on my layout somewhere.  And far too easy!

Love the intro with the cards sitting in the train cars! Very imaginative. You're pretty good at this How-To stuff, the camera loves you! And I thoroughly enjoyed the videos, very clear and easy to duplicate. Perhaps some alternate camera angles could be edited into your final video? Just an idea, there's really nothing wrong with them as they are. And I too am going to have to give this method a try, it looks just too easy and affordable for such a fantastic finished product!

So, what's your next video topic going to be? And when can I see it? I can't wait, you could develop quite a following with videos like these! Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the encouraging words everybody. This was my first attempt at editing together a "real" video. I learned a great deal in the process and would do a few things differently next time. Whatever and whenever that may be.

At any rate, I still have a bunch of foam downstairs that doesn't yet look like rocks so it's time to let the pink snow fly.

  Well done!  Your rock cliffs look great.  I like how you can see some of the lines of the foam blocks in some of the close up shots.  It looks like the rock is  fractured, but not checked out yet.  But the lines are not perfectly straight either.  It must be that the plaster you used to fill the cracks has fractured very naturally along the "fault".

  Nice job with the video!  I'd like to see what you do with the vegetation on that wall when you get to that point!

Cheers!

Toni

Rick - thank you SO MUCH for doing these videos!!!!!!!  I am planning a large area needing rocks, and I am going to use your method!  I am infatuated with the Rocky Mountains, so one half the layout is set in the mountains.  As I'm constructing things I've been apprehensive of getting to the stage of putting rockwork in place.  Plaster sure it painstaking.  (Emphasis on pain!)  Plus heavy.  (Emphasis on heavy)  I made a diorama  - 2 feet by 4feet, to try the plaster method.  It looks excellent, but is way too  time consuming and messy.  Not to mention the cost of either buying large molds, or effort to find suitably-textured rocks off of which to make molds.  I am going to make a small scene using your method to hone my skills with this. 

The entrance area to my layout is to have floor to above eye-level rockwork.  This is the way to do it!

Very much appreciated.  Thanks again!

Really well done video and the end results look fantastic! Makes me wish I had more mountain areas on my layout! I really am going to have to find a excuse to try out these techniques. Thanks Rick.