Nice hat Chas! Well, I used some oil paints to tint the resin, but church windows paints work too. They must be transparent colours that is
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Mike thanks!
Marty, here you are very flattering
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when you model your brain must know no limit!
Scott, you are more happy about the water than I am. it looks okay, but the colours slipped from my original idea, and this is something I thought I was beyond of when I started it. I work too fast, i forget to think and this is bad. But yesterday, I had to think about colours all over again. which leads me to ..
Claude! No you didn't miss anything I guess. the extra coats are extra resin coats, which are tinted and then let almost set before being applied with a modelling knife. As the resin is almost set it doesn't run so much.
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In the end, after 8 coats of resin , some coats of the other material , do you still have a translucent water surface. Turning the question around. Was it worth doing the first coats with resin ?
That's the question innit? You are in holidays near the sea perhaps? now look at it. and where do you see transparency? you see it when the water is not that agitated -in my diorama that would be near the let part. On the contrary, closer to the hole I would need transparency enough just to show some foam layers, and that's finally what I got.
BUT indeed i made a big mistake -those extra coats are indeed some shadow highlight as applied to the water, but my shadow coat was too dense where I have applied it: on the tip of the waves. Which means that i will have yet to do:
1/ trim the top of the wave (and its sibling just behind) in order to add an extra transparent coat
2/ re shadow this new transparent wave, but being a lot more cautious when it comes to darkness
3/ darken even more the area behind the blockhaus so that there is a more obvious direction of light.
I ain't sleeping yet on that one
As for did the first coats were useful, yes they were. I need 1 cm of transparency, no more than that, but then I couldn't pour it in the way I show in blue sadly.
I will be using a bit more than 1 litter of resin..
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a good reference for lighting!
like I said yesterday was the time for thinking, so I just added a sprayed white coat over the blockhaus, more on what i choose later on..
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and thanks for the questions and comments !!