- Member since
September 2005
- From: Chehalis, WA
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Modelling Rough Water
Hi, I am tackling two new projects in the diorama scene. Up until now I have dabbled mostly in HO and N Scale model railroading, but I want to take on something completely different.
I will be constructing two "marine style" dioramas in 1:48 scale, which is a whole different thing from the railroad stuff.
Diorama 1:
A scene portraying a U.S. Coast Guard 36' lifeboat in something similar to this:
Naturally, I won't have the water quite so rough and spraying, but I would like to make a realistic swell with the boat plowing into it deeply.
QUESTION: What would be best for constructing a realistic wave as portrayed? Any ideas will be seriously considered. I would personally like to try to have some translucences in the water, but that may be a pipe-dream and I don't mind being told so.
Diorama 2:
The above diorama is actually a precursor to one I will take on later, involving two boats "in harbor" in the following scene, as I reconstruct the now gone Port Orford Coast Guard Lifeboat Station.
In the end, one if not both of these will be donated to the Port Orford Lifeboat Station Museum. I may also opt to make two copies of the station model so I can keep one for posterity.
Thoughts and feelings welcome! Am pretty well set on the second project conceptwise, but the water thing on the first is what I really want to make look sweet.
~Aric Fisher
aric_001@hotmail.com
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