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Niels Kjær
Denmark
Malling
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After receiving my thermo cutter I could not wait to try it out in action. Geodaesic maps were found of the track area (in DK they are publicly available) and I decided on a height scale.
Since the cars are in 1:250 scale and the landscape has been scaled to approximately 1:800 to fit the board, I needed to make a decision on what I wanted to use for height. I settled on 1:500, because I could then use 1 foam board (1 cm high) per 5m height line and it would still give a bit of height difference on the track, although not much, as I also decided to cut the boards in half on some parts, giving the track an elevation difference of 5mm - corresponding to 1,25m in the cars scale.
A flat track 
Enough talk - pictures!
I took a picture before I started gluing stuff together.
It amazed me how easy it was to cut the boards and how fast everything went.
Change is nice 
Now everything is glued and I have applied model paste to the slopes.
After the paste dried, I sanded it to make it smooth.
A very thin paste was used on those flat areas that needed smoothing due to my (lack of) ability to cut foam boards in half in a smooth manner.
I cut out the track from a spare poster I had lying around, and I think it looks promising - but I may be biased 
The lower left part of the picture will be covered in trees while the upper right will be farmland.
I am still trying to get ideas about how to do farmland convincingly.
The next steps for me is to start preparing the track itself. I have made a paint sample with my spray paints that shows that I should do the white perimeter first and then the black grounding afterwards, as the white does not seem to be able to adequately cover the black.
I will be trying to paint white again over the black in the sample, as I would much prefer to it in the opposite sequence, since black is the 'inner' paint.
Thanks for reading.
As usual, comments and ideas are more than welcome
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