Water and farm animals.

SS-varnish does dry hard but needs to be put on in light coats-remember though that it may react with any plastic animals-but you'll be safe with light coats. And stream water isn't blue-it's clear, or muddy. Blue water is usually an indication of deep water or suspended particles. But a stream would not be affected by either.

Trowlfazz i think i will make a shallow stream does varnish set hard?.

SSpanzer

Look at the article in Nov 2004 issue of FSM called "Making Waves".  It's a technique, very inexpensive and very forgiving, to make water, using a base of aluminum foil (to make a wavy water surface, painted to look like water) with a heavy overcoat of ModPodge (which looks like the clear water).  ModPodge is a decopage liquid that looks like thin white glue, but dries thick and clear, giving a nice waterlike appearance.  I used this technique on an HO scale layout, and it looks great...and it is cheap and easy!

sspanzer make sure if you deciced to use woodland scenics that you dont get the beeds that you have to melt down i have had very bad experinces with it
make sure the base of the sream bed is pre-painted before you add the water i did that once before and i learnt my lesson!

 

 cheers duck man, I think i might buy that woodland scenic stuff,can it be put on poloystring  (i think thats how you spell it) or doe s something have to be put on it first?.

cheers  SSpanzer

for water you could use Mono ultra clear silicone its $5 a tube and it does not ubble underneath.

Cheers trowlfazz,

SS-If your stream is shallow varnish might work-I think white glue would stay a little opaque. For animals i would get some HO train set animals-they are 1/87 scale-but could just look like smaller animals.