Compendium of model-water making links

[Michael Potter]

After trying other methods, I now use the method that David Griffith shows in both of his books about ship modeling. Here are my notes about Dr. Griffith's method:

Sketch your wake patterns and a scale wavelength of at least 100 feet between swells. Provide for floatplanes, small craft, buoys, a coast, etc.! Those are fun to add and viewers like them.

A user-friendly paste is Liquitex Flexible Modeling Paste (a different product than regular Liquitex Modeling Paste). Liquitex Flexible Modeling Paste takes days to solidify so is easy to sculpt, remove, and add to.

For tropical waters I paint the base with three shades of blue: darkest blue for troughs, lighter blue for swells, medium blue for in-between. This method comes from Impressionist paintings. The water base paints should be much darker than in artists' paintings. I use my acrylic model paints for the base.

For colder waters, instead of blue paints I use black and haven't bothered to lighten swells.

For the water surface, Liquitex Gloss Gel works over black paint but glistens distractingly over blue paints. Flat gel looks unreal as water. I've just obtained semi-gloss Golden gel medium and intend to try that on a model in progress.

[Darklighter]

The link to Frank Spahr's tutorial doesn't work anymore. His tutorial can now be found here: https://www.finewaterline.org/making-waves.html

[JIM BAUMANN]

Thank you for drawing my attention to that-- I have now corrected and updated



JB

[JIM BAUMANN]

Regular contributor of model ships to the gallery Won Hui Lee
has built a great many ship models !!

I came across this link to a Youtube tutorial of his with english language captions
of some Won Hui Lee's methods

This may be old news to many -- but thought it worth posting!




His models can be found here on MW .com

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html