Hi all,
I am wanting to make a river/stream for a 1/72 dio i am making,does anyone know of any way to make water from house hold things? if not can anyone recomend some CHEAP stuff i can buy?.also does anyone know were i can find some 1/72 scale cow’s/sheep/horse’s?.
cheers in advance, SSpanzer.
SS-If your stream is shallow varnish might work-I think white glue would stay a little opaque. For animals i would get some HO train set animals-they are 1/87 scale-but could just look like smaller animals.
Cheers trowlfazz,
| for water you could use Mono ultra clear silicone its $5 a tube and it does not ubble underneath. |
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cheers duck man, I think i might buy that woodland scenic stuff,can it be put on poloystring (i think thats how you spell it) or doe s something have to be put on it first?.
cheers SSpanzer
sspanzer make sure if you deciced to use woodland scenics that you dont get the beeds that you have to melt down i have had very bad experinces with it
make sure the base of the sream bed is pre-painted before you add the water i did that once before and i learnt my lesson!
Look at the article in Nov 2004 issue of FSM called “Making Waves”. It’s a technique, very inexpensive and very forgiving, to make water, using a base of aluminum foil (to make a wavy water surface, painted to look like water) with a heavy overcoat of ModPodge (which looks like the clear water). ModPodge is a decopage liquid that looks like thin white glue, but dries thick and clear, giving a nice waterlike appearance. I used this technique on an HO scale layout, and it looks great…and it is cheap and easy!
Trowlfazz i think i will make a shallow stream does varnish set hard?.
SSpanzer
SS-varnish does dry hard but needs to be put on in light coats-remember though that it may react with any plastic animals-but you’ll be safe with light coats. And stream water isn’t blue-it’s clear, or muddy. Blue water is usually an indication of deep water or suspended particles. But a stream would not be affected by either.