good evening friends

I have almost finished a little dio here and just wanted to ask your views before i finish it compleatly!
As it happens i cant finish it yet because the dog gained access to my room and kindly ate every single paintbrush i own!

also i need some help with the water in the trough (sp?) A friend of mine said thin layers of white glue worked, so being a novice i thought "that'll do me!" but it has, infact turned out terrible and now i need to figure a way of fixing it. so could use a little help here?
i apologise for the quality of the pics but i was using my mobile phone!

Thanks for your time.

pics below (hopefully)

Ashley, from what I can see, the best remedy for the water trough might be to just pour a thin layer of super glue into it and let it cure. It should end up looking very much like frozen water. Nice effort by the way!

Vinnie

You could use a bit fo future on it or a bit of gloss or varnish to fix the water.
If you want frosted water try melting a bit of parafin (wax with no color) on top of the glue.

Ola Ashley

Well besides the superglue that vinnie mentioned you can also cut a piece of transparant plastic/styrene. Give it a wash with really thinned white paint on the bottom and with matt varnish on the top. Glue it in place with white glue and you have a nice solid frozen layer of paint. But I see you have something lying in the water so I think you could cure it all with superglue.
Also the guys really do seem to be very cold it is a nice set of figures you got there. To give a greater idea of misery have a built up of snow in the corner of the waterwel on the right side. Add a layer of snow on the top of the wooden part of the waterwell. I can't really see if you have added snow to the wooden door of the window. It seems like it. if you have great eye for detail.

Nice little scene looking forward to the end result

the other guys pretty much covered everything. For future reference, you might want to find some Liquitex at your LHS, especially if there's a train section. This is a two part clear epoxy that has much less shrinkage that white glue.

thanks for all your comments people, as for that thing in the water box, its the water pump, i forgot to take it out before i took the picture, and yes that is snow on the window shutter.

Also what is future? i have seen the word a couple of times on armorama but havnt a clue as to what it is!

thanks again for the comments, and sorry about the quality of the pictures

I think Future is 'Future Klear', some clear varnish used for floors. Could be wrong, it's something you can't buy here in Belgium (I think), but in the UK you can.

The quality of your pictures is very nice, considered that you used your mobile I was suprised.

Very nice dio/vignette. I like those simple ones, where a lot is told with only a few elements. I guess that's called talent, no?