advice.

[richard baker1707820250]

Hi all, i have just bought the airfix sea assult set, my question is how would i go about painting the sea to make it look reasonable, ie the best colours to use,

i am mainly an armour builder, so i have no idea at all about sea effects/colours ect.

any help very welcome.

Rich. 

[Frederick Kullas]

Are you still reading and working on this?

The way I do it is; use dark grey/green, dark blue/green and medium blue/green paints. Working from the lower of the troughs between waves I paint the dark grey/green, the upper gets the dark blue green with the lighter blue/green at the top. I keep the paint wet so that each clour blends to the next. After that is dry it gets several coats of gloss varnish. Then after that I use a dry-brush technique but with a wet brush, of matt white, across the tops of the waves.

 

hth

[richard baker1707820250]

Many thanks Frederick, i am still working on it, but have left the sea well alone,

your advice is very good and i will certainly try it out.

 

kind regards Rich.

[John Symmons]

Hi Richard.

Just come across your post about water effect, I concure with Frederick with the painting and in 72nd scale you could see all the colours. I take it you're modeling a European theme if it's the Med you should use lighter blue colours and if it's the Pacific may be more green should be used but the painting principlies are the same. As for modeling the water ther are many How-To's on the web but the best & cheapest way is using Acrilic paste from art supply stores. or you could try what I use for 600 & 350 scale waterline ships, that's Acrilic Tile Cement. It's non toxic, odourless, water soluble, easily moulded, can be sculped into almost any shape, and holds that shape, inexpensive and can be coloured with any water based paint for you base colour even house-hold PVA paints. Just spread it with a pallette knife (do not use a brush as the brush will be useless afterwards) and mould to your liking, (some practice might help)  it dries in a few hours but remains slightly rubbery so can be further modeled with a sharp knife or added to with more cement. (just keep it a moist air-tight container) You could even make up several colours and blend them into each other, the methods are endless just have fun.

Hope this helps. Remember we do this for fun  John the Pom