Greg
So I had picked the color choice on the right, same as Timmy.
Well Gregory, now that you brought it up. Just when I thought that I was set on a color... Timmy planted a seed. I was already leaning towards a green, but I hadn't gotten there. His comment made me look at the problem just, one, more, time. Back to the stores I went, on a quest for ocean blue. What did I find? It was the same old stuff. Nothing that remotely looked like what I wanted. Then I thought about doing my own custom mix. I went to Hobby Town, I was just about to give up when I came across something that Vallejo offers. It is called Dark Sea Blue. I thought, "No, it couldn't be this easy. Don't be suckered Steve, prepare yourself for another dead end."
I open the cap and squeezed a little bit out. I thought, "Hey, this looks to have a tinge of green." I must have belabored buying it for a good 15 minutes. I was sure that the lighting was playing tricks on me. I bought it, took it home, and I tried it. Yup--that... is as close as this poor sap is gonna get. I am using it.
This is a major change in direction from where I was first going, and what my vision for the build was gonna be. This build has evolved immensely. My first thoughts were that this is a fiction model, so why not have fiction water. This is why I was leaning towards the deep blue. Over time, that vision changed. I have no clue why. Maybe it was all the ocean seas I spied on while watching TV. Anyway, the color is shown below in the foreground. Gloss is not applied yet. I did a little drybrushing (not shown) using white paint, and it looked pretty convincing. I will lose the depth that I got using the clear blue, but, it is what it is.
And there you go, a shorty update.