[Paint] Water/puddle effect?

[Max]

I'm painting a couple of Plague Marine squads and want to make the bases
look as if they're trudging through lakes of goo with their feet sending
ripples through the stuff. Does anyone know of a technique to accomplish
this, or of a website where I could read up on it?

Thanks!

-Max

[John Hwang]

Two ways: layered white glue or clear epoxy resin.

In both cases, usually best to do it in layers so that the entire layer dries.

Check with the railroad guys for more details.

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[Myr]

In article <ce%D7.62657$C7.16...@news02.optonline.net>, Max,
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Howdy,

As John H. pointed out in the other post, you can use glue or
epoxy. Personally I recommend the epoxy method. John mentions railroad
folks as a source of info and epoxy suggestions which isn't a bad idea -
they can tell you how to create waves in your pools of water, etc. I've
tried several different types of epoxy including the railroad stuff and
here's what I'd suggest.

There are a variety of epoxys at a good hardware store. I'd
recommend a good 5 or 10 minute epoxy - it will let you mix the color to
the desired transparency before you apply it to your mini, and still set
in a reasonable time and not all run off the base, etc.

Of these you'll find 2 main types - there's the yellow & clear
tube sets of epoxy that dry basically transparent. There's also the blue
& off white tube sets that mix up to a cloudy consistency and dry in a
cloudy semi-transparent state. Both of these can be used to good effect
for the kind of thing you're talking about. I use the semi-transparent
and mix in acrylic paints (and it doesn't take much paint at all if you
want to retain the semi-transparent qualities) to create slime for the
sides of leaking toxic waste barrels. I use the more transparent kind to
create puddles of goo, blood, etc. You can mix in acrylic paints or inks
- but be warned - it doesn't take much pigment to tint the mix, so start
out with small amounts.

There are problems with some of the HO scale train resin sets used
to create water in HO scale terrain. One type of clear resin epoxy has
to be melted and poured (eeekkk! My mini is melting!) - in addition this
type has a tendency to have a funky yellowish tint to it. The other type
that is often used to create large pools of water can take as long as 72
hours or more to dry (eeeekkk!) So, unless I'm doing a big pool of water
or slime, I just use the 10 min epoxy.

Some things to consider...

1. Work on a Styrofoam plate or wax paper - it would truly suck to glue
your carefully painted mini to the work bench, only to have to mangle
your hard work just to get it unstuck again.

2. Practice mixing various amounts of color with your epoxy on a small
expendable piece of cardboard before you try it on one of your good
minis. This will give you a better feel for the amounts of color needed
to get a specific tint you want.

3. Remember that when using transparent colored epoxy, the color
underneath will affect the final result. So, if you put transparent red
blood on a green base, it may look like brownish liquid.

Hope that helps,

Myrmidon

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What exactly are you trying to create here - Codex: Fromage??
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[Tim Fitzmaurice]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Myr wrote:

> epoxy. Personally I recommend the epoxy method. John mentions railroad
> folks as a source of info and epoxy suggestions which isn't a bad idea -

I did find that by spraying acrylic gloss varnish on a not yet fully cured
enamel paint surface I got a raised ridging that could be viewed as a
ripple. Judicious appication of the angle of spray might allow a
consistent effect. I'll lt you know in oh 48 hours or so if the enamel
loses the ridging as it cures fully. (slight techiical hitch last night).

> "Conan, what is best in life?"
> "To paint your miniatures, to see them driven before you on the table,
> and to hear the lamentation of the cheese-mongers!"

You need to read Groo

Tim
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