There she blows - She is a beauty and the water is sufficiently effective, namely she looks like she is sailing on the ocean which is ultimately the purpose of any water surrounding a model ship. When thinking about water and realism I can't help recall the water in that abortion of a movie Titanic (the 1997 Leonardo DiCaprio edition) in which the water in some scenes left much to be desired and yet the movie won best special effects - while Starship Troopers made in the same had realistic looking bugs - go figure...