EVA foam, any good for terrain building?

[beefcake]

I know XPS is they preferred type of foam for terrain building but does anyone know what EVA is like? I've tried and tried to find XPS in New Zealand but just can't find it anywhere, however I can easily find EVA. I'm doubtful about whether it will be any good. F anyone knows it's properties I'd really appreciate hearing about them.

[eilif]

EVA is the semi-squishy kind of foam rubber that is used for the bases of miniatures trays. I buy it surplus or from the craft store which sells it in 3mm sheets and use it as the bottom of my custom minis trays.

I'm sure there is some use for it in terrain. (maybe as roads?) but it's prettyflexible and I don't know how well it will take paint.

Still, I've used squishy mattress foam rubber to make rocks and cliffs so I imagine EVA could be used also.
This necromundcon article (follow the link too) about foam rubber rocks is where I got the idea.
http://www.ironhands.com/bd_rocks.htm
Here's a full totorial on how I did minie. 
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2012/08/terrain-tutorial-caverns-and-rocks-fast.html
Note though it doesn't say so, the spray paints I used did end up being a bit brittle and occassionaly I respray over an edge that cracks.  If I do this again, I'd probably use latex (rather than spray enamel) for the black basecoat and the under colors and use the sand-textured spray as the finish only.

[beefcake]

Thanks I'll check the blog out when I get back home

[Connectamabob]

Apparently it's thermoformable too. Cosplayers use the thicker floor mat sheets a lot to make armor and props. It can be bent with a heat gun, and sculpted/carved with a wood burning iron (though I'm not sure if the iron is used full power, or reducd with a dimmer switch or something). I recently saw a guy on another forum who was vac forming pasks using the thing craft store type sheets.

Not sure what all the terrain applications of all that would be, but it does seem like it could be useful for something.

At the very least, I can imagine maybe getting enough large floor mat "tiles" to cover a tabletop, and using heat tools to give it hills and gullies and streambeds and such.