Best water effects for ships?

[carlos13th]

Hey guys

I ordered an Adake Bune Samurai ship and I am waiting for it to arrive. It comes with a base however and I would prefer to use water effects to make the base look a little better than just a flat base.

I was wondering what water effects would be best to achive this. If you have any tutorials that would be greatly appreciated.

[Mako]

Plastics companies sell textured lighting covers, and acrylic for shower doors.

They have several patterns that look like rippled, or wavy water, and it's pretty inexpensive too.

[Gunbird]

For what it is worth, I only do water effects on 1/3000 and 1/600 stuff. For the bigger ones, they tend to spend most of the time dead in the water so I feel water effects are not really needed. And look damned odd on a anchored boat. But it is easy, using a bit of cling film, to sculpt a bow wave against the boat that is removable, as well as a textured plasticcard wake using the Vallejo water effects stuff I use for 1/3000 and 1/600 as well. I grind off the bow wave off my 15mm/20mm ships because of that. Now actually finishing one however....