In regards to the quote above, I do not see it that way. I use enamel paint and they are quite opaque. I have painted light colours over dark, like the orange vest over blue shirt, or white strip over orange vest, without problems.
My hands are not as steady as the used to be, and I often have to do a touch up here and there. For example, where the vest goes over the shoulder. I may get too much blue there, and after a few hours of drying, I go back with the orange and cover the excess blue.
I do not know how acrylic paints, for modelling, show up.
Yep, and now the buoy has a more plausible story of how a crane mishap turned a damaged buoy into a giant squid. That shocked crewman must have been tripping. [:D]
Spent a few extra hours cutting the cork snading block pieces with a knife. This was needed to bring the pieces to a better scale, and to add sheer-fractures to the rock.
Experimented with assembling and painting the pieces. Discovered that it is best to lay each rock at a time.
The last photo shows how I will paint the rocks, with a silt-wash to show previous flooding and tidal line.
By using a long haired artist brush I was able to paint all the cracks. Felt that it is best to glue the cork to cork. However, I will paint the base with a very dark colour before glueing the cork pieces.
Those are riverbank / bay rocks for sure. Great job. Very realistic. Scratch some to scale crabs and then it’s off charts! That is some great work bud.
Lol, the buoy does look a lot like a giant squid!!!
And nice work on the cork rocks. Around here we call them riprap, I’m not sure if your term would be the same. Just another wierd bit of trivia I picked up from a job years ago.
Yeah , we called it Rip-Rap when I was rebuilding levees too .The waterline tidal coloring in awesome . Did that poor fellow get wet ? Giant squid ? I guess you could call that a steam-punk squid ?
How much longer have you been given to complete this masterpiece ? The guys laughing could at least buy him a pint , eh ?
