You will find that it is hard and rigid, like a piñata. The sheets will be soft and pliable, so mould them into hills and valleys as you like. You simply dip sheets of newspaper (fold them a couple of times to make them thicker) in the paste and drape them over the scrunched up newspapers. Adding a dash of cinnamon to the mixture gives the paste a pleasant smell adding a dash of salt and sugar reduces the chances of the product developing mould. Still others say that starch makes a fine paste.
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Other people use a three to one or a one to one ratio of water and polyvinyl acetate wood glue (white glue). Water to flour ratio is changed to five parts water to one part flour in this case. Some people prefer to boil the paste, saying that it makes the consistency smoother. The traditional method of making papier-mâché paste is to add one part water to one part flour. Basically, you just scrunch up some newspapers into the general shape of the hill or mountain, then cover them with sheets of newspaper dipped in papier-mâché paste. If your layout is temporary, or you don't want to spend much money, you can use the papier-mâché method.
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("Papier-Mâché" is French, and is often misspelled as "paper mache" in English.) There are basically two methods of making hills and mountains for your model railroad, the Paper-Mâché Method and the Window Screening Method. Adding mountains and hills is easy and uses readily-available, low-cost materials.
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Watching a toy train or model railway circle around a simple loop on a flat, bare table gets boring very quickly.