Covering Woodland Scenic Risers

[conrail98]

For my new HCD layout, I bought the Woodland Scenic Riser kits for the various grades. When looking at applying the cork to the riser, there are obviously gaps between the cork and edge of the riser. What does everyone use to fill that gap in? I've seen suggestions of plaster cloth, some type of masking tape? Before I glue them down, I wanted to have a direction so the risers down, track down, goes pretty quickly.

Thanks,

Phil

[Steveruger45]

I used plaster cloth and then painted it with vinyl wall paint to seal it.  Both because I had these things just lying around.  It worked really well and held up really well too, as I’m now finding when tearing down my layout.   I’m also interested in hearing other options to consider in my new layout, yet to be built.

[wvgca]

cloth or heavy duty paper towels soaked in plaster compound [or in my case DAP adhesive] work reasonably well ..
not much else is as low cost and effective ..  you can fill in bigger gaps with whatever you have around ,in my case it was bits of foam to support the towels while they set / cured / dried

[conrail98]

Thanks guys, that seemed to be the most common method,

Phil

[davefoxx]

I just laid down a coat of lightweight spackling to fill the gaps and avoided wasting gallons of ballast and ground foam later.

DFF

[conrail98]

I just laid down a coat of lightweight spackling to fill the gaps and avoided wasting gallons of ballast and ground foam later.

DFF

Dave, was that after any cork was laid down or before?

- Phil

[davefoxx]

Actually I’ve done it before and after.  It’s not critical to fill in the gaps before you glue down the cork, but it can be easier to apply the spackling without having to worry about being neat around the cork.

Dave