Many thanks for your kind comments and compliments on the dio!
I got the same question here and there about the wakes - how they were made. So I called Art Instructor to ask for details. Here it goes...
Art Instructor's Method of Water and Wake Creation
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1. Mix clear resin with a lot of speeding agent so that it dries fast. Pour the mixed
liquid onto desired areas a little at a time (say 10-15 ml) in multi-layer style. Use a
brush to guide the direction of liquid flow to form the shape of current around desired
lines or areas.
2. The top layer of the liquid will become sticky in about 3 minutes. It's time to create white wakes.
Use shapen device such as pencil-tip or sharpen stick to pierce into the drying liquid many many
times (this is a time consuming job!), this will break up the drying liquid creating wakes and turn its
color into white naturally. That's it!
If you want blue water, Art Instructor suggests you to paint blue on the base of the dio, not mix blue
color into resin liquid because colored resin will not turn into white wakes once pierced. It will
become blue wakes which is unreal.
Look at this Pibber Dio which he built some six years ago using the same technique,
he painted buff color on the base so that the water looks like river water :
Does that sound easy? You just try out. Practice makes perfect!
PS. Before trying this technique, please be informed that resin may be hazardous
to your health not to mention its terrible smell. A gas mask is advised for this job!