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So I'm making a display board, and large sections of it needs to be raised 1-2cm above the rest of it. Any ideas on what materials I can use? It needs to be flat, and I don't have access to styrofoam. Do you reckon cardboard would work?

Tinfoil is pretty good as long as you use rigid putty over it.

Pollyfiller?

Easily moulded and shaped. Just wear a mask if you sand it down. Its hard, cheap and easy to gt hold of.

Railway layouts often use balled up newspaper to fill out the voids under rising terrain... Can either be dry fit with tape to hold the shape, or use the papier-mâché technique... maybe not the best for flat terrain though, how about just making a wooden frame and using thin MDF - would be sturdier than cardboard

If it's just 1-2cm, then corrugated cardboard layered up would do the trick, so long as you cover the exposed edges. Assuming there will be some basing material and paint on top (and a little extra around the rim), you'd have to be pretty abusive for the material to give way. For as little material as is actually contained within its volume, the stuff is designed to be resistant to flexion and crushing, after all.

Cardboard would be a good one to try IMO, it's strong if you layer it up, and it's easy to get