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What is shaper sheet?
Shaper sheets are a material used to create self-supporting hills or terrain on a model railway layout or other dioramas. Depending on whether they are used in conjunction with a hard top surface they can form either hard or soft shell landscapes.
Shaper sheets come in the form of large sheets that can be crunched, scrunched, shaped and moulded into desirable shapes to replicate hills or terrain. The biggest advantage of the shaper sheet is that you do not need to build any framework to support it. Once a desired shape has been formed, the shaper sheet will hold its profile and details and is strong enough to support light scenic items such as grass and a few trees, for a harder shell intended to bear heavier scenery, the shaper sheet should be covered with plaster cloth or coated in shaper sheet plaster to create a sturdy but lightweight structure.
Shaper sheets not only save you time in not having to create any supporting structures to hold up your terrain, they also naturally form into very realistic profiles when crunched to imitate rocks, boulders and cliff faces making them an ideal way to add convincing effects to your scene.
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