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Help needed with water
Desert-Fox
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England - South East, United Kingdom
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Posted: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 09:16 AM UTC
Anyone in the UK know where to get, pouring resin to simulate water?
How is concrete simulated for aircraft hard-stands for 1/48 a/c?
Cheers
Plasticbattle
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Posted: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 - 01:07 PM UTC
hey Martin. Depending on what type of water you need, sometimes there are easier methods of making water without resin. I made water under a bridge using lots of layers of gloss varnish with a little tint of green oil paint in it or brown in the first few layers. Ripples I made from glue gel, tinted with white on the highest points and then just the clear varnish over it. see the picture to see what I mean. Unless you want a water fall or serious water movement it can be made this way. I believe that you could make any shape of water falling etc or rapids with tile cement and then paint over as i described above. But so far this is my only attempt at water!

Desert-Fox
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Posted: Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 12:17 AM UTC
Nice one, at least thats one method I will try out.
Ta!!!!!!
slodder
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Posted: Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 12:48 AM UTC
Do a forum search for Tarmac. There are a number of concrete duplication methods mentioned, some get very specific.
As far as specifically for hard points - didn't see anything. I'm hoping you may be able to gleen information and apply it to your needs.
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