TastyBake ISL

[Tyson Rayles]

Matt I always lay at least a 1/2 inch peice of foam on the plywood before I start to build anything. It will quiet the train noise down. It also will let you go back in later and put in a drainage ditch or pond or whatever. Also if you are going to have trees on the layout you can just stick them in, you won't have to drill a hole for every tree or bush that you want to "plant". Just remember to use water based paints and glues on anything that will be on the foam itself. I use Elmer's White Glue for gluing down the scenery materials and the track. The handy thing about using it to glue the track is that if you want to make changes later you can just mist it with warm water, let sit for a few minutes and the track and ballast come right up.