Maarten Schönfeld wrote:
Nick,
Your long-term lurking certainly paid off!
Beautiful well built Typhoon!
Thank you for the kind words.
Much appreciated!
Rom1 wrote:
Very nice!
can you give more details about the techniques employed for the water?
Thanks
Sure. It is the technique described by Jim Baumann here:
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I did a few things different either due to errors on my part of lack of materials. I only had gap-filling CA, but it didn't soak into the paper very uniformly as I'd hoped. This left areas that did not have CA despite my attempts to spread it around didn't quite succeed. This lead to a dreadful appearance when I first started painting the sea, but a few coats of Future floor wax sealed it up and brought back a nice uniform appearance.
I also tried to use gel medium to fill the undersurface of the seascape, but it contracts a fair bit and ultimately accentuated the undulations. I partially remedied it by releasing the paper and propping it in places. I also used gel medium on the surface to fill in places where there was too much difference between peaks and troughs - at least in the area of the wake. The gel medium was also used to create the wake effects.
The surface was painted with humbrol enamels using Jim's recommended techniques, mixing in greys to the base color and blending "wet on wet" to create the foaming sea of the wake. I also applied one last fine layer of gel medium on top of this which was dry brushed white to create a slightly more reticulated appearance to the wake.
Best,
Nick