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Title: Painting standing water
Post by: Bravo Six on June 04, 2014, 09:05:19 AM

Lads,

I'm about to paint a couple of the Ainsty water troughs for my Vietnam village, and I was wondering what color/colors to use to paint standing water? Anyone have experience with this? My typical recipe is much too blue and bright.

Thanks in advance.

-Todd

Title: Re: Painting standing water
Post by: 6milPhil on June 04, 2014, 09:34:02 AM

I tend to do a dark coat at the bottom, a coat or two of gloss varnish, a few tickles of a lighter coat, more varnish. For a water trough I'd tempted to use a brown or tannish khaki, or maybe just gloss varnish.

(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/85/9f/5f/859f5f9c4caaaeaba01b6cc3c43d39b9.jpg)
*Not Viet Nam

Title: Re: Painting standing water
Post by: Bravo Six on June 04, 2014, 09:44:34 AM

Thanks Phil. Makes perfect sense. What type of gloss do you use for such a small area? I know Vallejo makes Gloss and Matte.

-Todd

Title: Re: Painting standing water
Post by: 6milPhil on June 04, 2014, 06:09:41 PM

I use Humbrol enamel gloss. Mainly because I know it works and I use that for mini's anyway so I have some around. I have tried it with pva, which works but tends to be slower and not as tough. Poured deep and it sets only in places and leaves a most unattractive white sediment within the sealed bit, messy to remove too - like a pva sandwich.
If you're just thinking of pure varnish you can just pour it but don't go deeper than 2-3mm at a time because it will take an age to set, and can even ripple.

Here's one I did earlier  ;)
(http://i.imgur.com/0DQRf1j.jpg)

Just painted green in the vat and then topped off with varnish. Also if you go too thick, which I did with this one, in being a bit lazy with it, it will brown too - but I'm happy with the result.