Built a chain link fence as an experiment using craft store "jewelry wire".  Came out ok I think as this is my first attempt at this using wire.  Sorry for the fuzzy photo as I took it with my cell phone camera.  I still need to paint it and actually install it permanently into position.  

HO Scale

...So I've been experimenting using sifted dirt over the painted Sculptamold, using diluted white glue, then later spraying with diluted matte medium to seal it.  The problem is that the dirt is significantly darker after it's glued down.  I thought it might be the matte medium, so I left that off.  Then I thought that maybe it was the dilution of the glue, so I reduced the water until, finally, I was using just straight glue.  That seemed to help somewhat, but the glued-down dirt still has a mottled, darker-than-natural color.  What am I doing wrong?

so I have an odd distance from the front of my layout to the closest siding, and I was thinking that a long, narrow warehouse would fit in real well. I was thinking about making it a sale 50 feet wide, 200 feet long, and have three car spots, with roll up doors. I plan to model a pair closed, and have one open. I was thinking about having a concrete floor foundation that is the same height as a boxcar floor, and appearing like this:

I recently got my hands on a few pieces of polystyrene over the past couple of days and was wanting to use it to create the foundation of mountains with crumpled up newspaper placed in certain areas then drape plaster cloth over everything to create a solid frame to paint and mould into scenery how would I go about getting the heights right in order to make them realistic in height and size according to the scale of the train set