RMS Titanic - her last hour afloat (Revell 1:1200)

Wow! it onyt took 2 days!Very impressive!

Great results on a two-day project.  The life boats in the water are an insightful touch--sort of chilling; such little boats compared to the huge ship.  Well-done.

Could you provide some information on how you used the "Water Effects?"  This is a product I'm not familiar with, but you achieved an impressive effect with it.

Hi there - thanks for your message and compliments. I used Vallejo Water Effects for this which is available in a number of shades but should ideally be painted over when dry or mixed with a dye / choice of paint colour while wet before use - its a kind of liquid latex jelly which takes about 2-3 days to dry (depending on density) but slowly becomes more stable/solid and can be moulded and tweeked throughout the drying process. For the Titanic diarama I set the ship into the base and dabbed it with a paint brush to get the wave effects during day 3 of the drying process. I added some clear Vallejo water effects around the bow area of the ship where the water is flooding the bow, mixed with a tad of lifecolour acrylic white. I have added some shots below for you along with a base I made for a sunderland sea plane diorama I built some years ago in 1:72 scale. The waves here needed extra working and adding to (hence the different shades of the product in the pictures. I had to build this up on a base that had the foundation of the wave heights to avoid having to use too much of the Water Effects gel which costs about £12 a pot. Once the desired water bed effects were fine tuned, I put the diarama bases on the top of my water heater to force the drying process rock hard overnight - then it was a simple case of painting and dry brushing to get the final end result. Sorry but not all the pictures are in logical order below but I hope this helps answer your question.

Thanks, John.  I appreciate the narrative and the pictures.  You've got some terrific artistic water talent here.  The seaplane rescue is pretty cool.  I have a few ships, but none in "water."  The process seems intimidating, but this might be doable for me.  Thanks again.

Well done,,   very clever

Bill

Beautifully done. Look forward to seeing more of this type of Dio.....CHeers Mark