Modeling Water

That technique with the foil ROCKS!!!!!! After having fooled around with resins and puttys before, I'll never go back to that way again. It's foil forever.

The Nov 04 issue of FSM has a great how-to article on modeling water...it's called "Making Waves", and I tried it myself and got great results.  It's a very inexpensive and forgiving process, and very realistic!  It's basically a crumpled aluminum foil piece (to simulate the water surface), painted to look like water, then coated thick with Mod Podge, an inexpensive decorpage medium that resembles white Elmer's Glue and dries clear.  I used it on an HO-scale size project and everyone said "how did you do that?"  I plan to use it for model ship dioramas.  Check it out, you can't go wrong.  You won't have to mess with epoxies, resins, etc.

Thanks.Unfortunatly I ran out of paint last night,but used the time to find reference pics online.Somehow they are real particular about releasing info on the North Cormorant,so I guess I'm going to have to go with the boxes color scheme and do weathering from other off shore oil rig pics.I even tried to contact the Shell Corp and got no answer.As soon as I get started with the paint and glue I'll start taking pics.I believe this is the largest model I've ever done and I want to make sure I get everything right because the size leaves a lot of detail work.It is 2ft wide X 2 ft. long X 2 ft. high with legs tall enough to park a 1:200 scale ship underneath.Thanks for the words of encouragement.

i've heard of people using wall putty to make the water, form it like waves.then color,then clear topcaot. i've seen this on some Trumpeteer AC carriers. the effect is pretty realistic to me.. Goodluck bro, and keep us updated on your project

Thanks,I've been all over the net and can't seem to get the correct answers to the how-to part.It seems all the searches came up with ' use this product ' answers ,but know this is what you're suppose to do to get a certain effect.I'm trying to create ocean waves crashing against the legs of the oil platform and add a small tug boat to the confussion.Some one suggested using clear silicone,paint the top of the silicone,and then reapply the silicone on top of the paint.that might get the disired effect.

Hi and to the forums !!!!

Check ARC ( Aircraft Resource Center ).

aircraftresourcecenter.com

Go to Tool 'n' Tips, and then scroll down and click Making water.
It has some very good tips...

Cheers,

Jürgen