Ipainted my river area and thought it looked good. I applied Realistic Water and now I’m notsure I like the results. Has anyonepainted over the hardened Realistic Water and then reapplied another coat ofthe water. My concern, will the realistic water react to the newlyapplied paint between layers of realistic water. I attached a photo of the area. I'm open for comments. View attachment 47209
No reaction to acrylic paints. I would recommend this technique: Leave what you have and mix in some acrylic paints to your Realistic Water then pour it on top of your river. I think this will produce the "look" you may want. The new pour will have some translucency and blend in your 'bottom' river bed paint. Good luck. Jim
Looks good to me.... Looks like a lot of silt running down after a big wet.. Has it been raining on your layout?? Mark.
It looks pretty good so far. For a river, it does look a little too calm. You need to ripple it up. I believe there is a product that does this called Modge-Podge? Also, around here (Northeast US) the rivers are generally brown or green, and you can't see more than about 12 inches below the surface on a good day. Car thieves drive stolen autos into the rivers and they pretty much disappear right below the surface. Lately, to save money, the local municipalities don't even pull them out anymore when they are found. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. A river doesn't look right to me anymore unless it is muddy and has a few junk cars, old tires, llogs, old refrigerators and washers, grocery store buggys and a half-sunken barge or two in it. FS
Around here the rivers all cleared up due to the introduction of zebra mussels. You can see down five feet, no more green water. Don't they have them out east?
Realistic Water is a high flow, viscous material that never truly "sets". I found that because of this and it's rubber like consistency it is is to pull up if you don't like it. Often times this is the best approach in modeling although expensive and a bit of a setback. It is hard to create ripples because the material will self level on you. I would top coat with white acrylic to create this effect if that is what's wanted. I get good results with high gloss gel mat medium but of course YMMV. Bill
While we do have Zebra mussels up here, thay haven't been here long enough to change the color of the water. Do to the nature of river, I'm not sure the Monongahela would be effected by them anyway. They are, however. a huge problem in Lock & Dam maintenence, as they gum up everthing below the water line, including the doors. FS
I have painted over this before, and there is really no problem doing so. Just use acrilic paints. Btw I think you're water looks fine as it is... I don't much of anything can clean up the Monongahela :uhoh: .....Mike
