water effects

[housecarl]

Does anyone have any ideas, with regards to creating ripples, splashes, droplets etc. With vallejo artificial water?

 

[magister militum]

I think the Vallejo brand is pourable product. I don't think you can manupulate it since it is self leveling. Woodland Scenics does make a product called E-Z Water. The product comes in bead form and you melt them with a heat gun or blowdyrer. You can then keep reheating it and play with it to creat ripples and such.

 

[housecarl]

The only thing I've learnt so far it's not nice on the skin!

 

[Jamie Stokes]

Carl,
I've seen some great water effects over on another site, but you need to log in, and have something other then a free email address to register to log in.

Here it is
http://theclubhouse1.net/

If you choose to get in (Simple, bit fiddly), and see the "Scenic Route" group. Then check out Per Olav's Work, "From Hell" Jungle Diorama.

Attached is One Photo of Per Olavs work, copied here for discussion purposes only.
A light helicopter has crashed upside down in a ravine, and now has a stream passing through its shattered fuselage.

Per Olav is an award winning hobbyist, with many years of experience.

What kind of water effect(s) are you thinking of aiming for?

Cheers

PS this link too......http://www.planetfigure.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21876

 

[housecarl]

Thanks Jamie, I see what you mean with regards to accessing the site. The PF forum nailed it. All I wanted to do was cause a little disturbance, as if stepping in to water. I thought trying to create ripples would be a little ambitious.
Cheers,
carl

 

[BarrieHynd]

Carl, have a look at the Authorsculpt Trapper update by davidmitchell , i think you might find it very usefull.
Barrie,

 

[TWOMOONS]

Does anyone have any ideas, with regards to creating ripples, splashes, droplets etc. With vallejo artificial water?

Sure...I've done it many times. But not with Vallejo. There are many other ways.
If you want to use a 2 part water,(I've always used Envirotex) there is a way that you can get an incomparable effect...although it's time consuming and a bit tedious. But without any actual touching of the surface, this is the best, IMO.
As the suface self levels, near the end , when it actually "freezes" into a solid hard surface, stand over it with a hair dryer blasting away at it. You can actually "sculpt" small waves and ripples; they will level off if you're not at that magic point when it "freezes", but it some point it will, and the results are amazing. as I said, it takes a while.
I did a piece years ago with a Vietnamese boy riding a water buffalo, and the ripples were coming off the buffalo as if it was moving in the muddy water.
Another way to make water disturbace , or even ripples to some degree, is to mix Devcon 5 minute epoxy on some aluminum foil; make longish strips with it before it hardens. When they are hard completly, they can be glued with cyano on a polyurethane water surface, either hardened or still fluid. If hardened, then add some newly mixed polyurethane and pour it over sparingly the hardened epoxy glue, which snaps off the foil when completely dry and hard...bend the foil away from it... it will be clear, or you can add the slightest bit of white paint to it, and it will make superb torrent type ripples. Like putting it either side of a soldier's leg while fording a stream.
You can make splashes the same way, with hardened 5 min. epoxy. A great place for natural water effects and products are taxidermy catalogs.
You will achieve the water "texture" by either of these methods, or a combo of both.