Does anybody ever sculpt maps? (Clay, etc.)

[ravells]

One of those 'To Do' projects I have had on the list for a while is to get a bag of sharp sand, pour it into a tray, wet it and then sculpt it topographically. Then take some overhead photographs of it and use a black and white of the image as a shadow overlay on a map in photoshop.

[Redrobes]

I did similar here:

http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...3&postcount=10

Try it with white pasticene play doh and it gives a great shadow map for use with a texture for dirt.