Last night, as I drifted off to sleep, I wondered why Rik Pierce doesn't use Styrofoam sheets instead of Rigid Foam Insulation. I was thinking of a beach I made for an HBS project and how easy it was to create sand dunes by sanding them with another piece of Styrofoam. The Rigid Foam Insulation is like the finest Styrofoam you can imagine. The density is so fine a craft knife slices thru it like butter and sand paper smoothes the edges in a heart beat. A week or so ago, I went into Corel and designed templates for the landscape but when the moment came I didn't use them.
Time goes by and someone builds a crude stone hut against the outcropping.
One of the natural stones is the hearth stone of the fireplace and the back of the fireplace is raw granite. By the 1600's, the cottage has seen renovations the lower levels of the original wattle and daub has been replaced with brick infill. So, I'm building up layers of rock around the left side of the house. Slicing thru the foam insulation like butter and carving and slicing in whatever direction feels right. The whole assembly is getting covered with Celluclay, or Mortar Mix, or whatever, so the bare bones don't matter.