Hello again all!
following on from PART 1 here;
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37223The photos below were taken with a flash, indoors, at night.- I hope to supplement the set below with some photos in the near future taken in daylight; the colours are actually flatter and more subtle, but the present set are adequate for illustrative purposes....
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Having brought the model to 'flatcoated-but-not-yet-rigged' stage it was time to apply some colour to the water surface.
I chose a tone similar to that found around the British Isles and Norther Europe on an overcast day; a dull grey-green mix that forebodes worse weather to come!
The previously mounted ship had the immediate perimeter around the waterline carefully painted using a fine brush, ensuring that the 'underbelly' of the ship remained visible.
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Once completed, the effect was of a dull sea, lifeless and monotone.
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I now applied more of the grey roughly to the still wet surface with copious amounts of thinners and re brushed the surface wet-on-wet
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This was then blended using the thinners to keep it all wet and flowing,the idea being to create subtle highlights and darker tones
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Next the crests of the bow and stern waves were added-using thick white paint, the initial effect is very crude, but more thinners and dry-on-wet paint will give a fairly satisfactory effect yet...
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The contrast of blended and un-blended can be seen to good effect below
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once washed and dry-on wet brushed the results start to look a little like foaming sea
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after all the mixing and blending the overhead view was quite pleasing to the eye
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Not forgetting the water ahead of the ship; the swell would require a little spindrift- important not to overdo this as it can overpower the scene
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Overhead views of similar ships at a variety of speed are always the best source; the variance of wake pattern and foam distribution varies from photo to photo depending on sea conditions, speed, and direction of travel relative to the wind.
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Bow wave spray was made of the slightly torn edges of tissue paper, and supplemented with white fluff taken from a tumbledryer filter-this being finer than cotton wool!
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The fluff was also added to a few crests of the quarter-wave--again ...less is more...- even when its windy, surprisingly little spray gets blown off a wave.
I hope the above is of some help to anyone who has not as yet taken the plunge...
haha... to make some miniature water.
Jim Baumann
PART ONE: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37223
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