Hot Wire Foam Factory the manufactureres of the hot wire foam cutter reviewed in the last issue has a new product for coating hills and foam terrain to give them a more realistic feel and appearance. Mixed with water and applied with a brush or spatula, it can be sculpted to give your hills more character and roughness. It comes in a smooth and rough texture. Using cement as a base rather than plaster, it is permanent and will stand up to rough handling. I haven't tried this yet, but it proabbaly could be used to terrain troop bases as well. As it is water based, water based paint can probably be used to pre-tint it in a base color so that any dings won't be noticeable. $8.95 for 2 pounds from Hot Wire Foam Factory . More Reviewing Stand Castaway Arts 25mm Ancient Hebrew and Biblical Ranges Essex 25mm Samurai B&B Minitaures 20mm AMR Dixon 25mm AMR Redoubt 25mm ACW Dismounted Cavalry GHQ 1/285th Pewter Buildings GHQ 1/285th WWII Micro Armour GHQ 1/285th Modern Micro Armour BP Casts 1/72nd Soviet Tank and A/C TCS Houston's Ships GHQ 1/2400 Wichita Merrimack Miniatures 25mm OK Corral DJD Miniatures Arc Gauge Miniature World Maker Terrain GHQ 1/1200 HMS Shannon Napoleonic Ship Scale Specialties 1/160 WWII Decals Hot Wire Foam Factory Foam Coating 1870 Franco-Prussian War Grand Tactical Rules Hail Caesar! Gladatorial Rules Melees Gloriosus Ancient Warfare Rules Face of Battle WWII Skirmish Rules Brookhurst Hobbies Overlord Angels 15 WWII Air Wargaming Rules Red Cloud' War: Wagon Box Fight World War II Ballistics: Armor and Gunnery Back to Table of Contents -- Courier # 83 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com