Terrain Board for SAGA or other skirmishes

[Malamute]

Looks great, it doesn't look too blue in the photos.

[OSHIROmodels]

I think that does the job nicely 

I also like the idea of using cling film to protect the water whilst it dries.

cheers

James

[Dr. Zombie]

What a beautifull board. Thumbs up.

[jmilesr01]

nicely done

[Michi]

That´s a rather nice board now!

[h3rm3s82]

 
Today I screwed my board up.

As last time I mixed not enough resin together so I couldn't fill the pond and the swamp together.
Instead I first filled the pond. The moment I poured the resin in, I realized I forgot to sprinkle flock on the pond's ground as I did in the creek which created a nice effect of underwater plants.
Okay, I sprinkled some flock into the still fluid resin and hoped it would sink as it did on some test piece I made earlier. It did not. Instead it was pushed to the edges by the curing resin. Okay, the effectis not that bad, but the pond's ground is too clean now.

That wasn't all what happened. With the creek I experienced that I destroyed the bubbles in the resin too early and some built up afterwards which couldn't be destroyed anymore.
So I wanted to give the bubbles a bit more time to build up and rise to the surface.

I mixed new resin and filled the swamp and all went as it should.

But as I returned to the pond I jumped with fright. The bubbles accumulated to a foamy ridge of bubbles and that was even too hard now to destroy it with a lighter. AAARGH!
I panicked and tried to get the resin fluid again with a hair dryer but only made it worse. Now I have really messed up that pond.

As I read in the instructions, you can sand the resin after curing and I will try to do that and get a level surface which can be made glossy again with alcohol or a new layer of clear resin.
If this fails, last resort will be to "fill up" the pond with sand and make it disappear completely.

Lesson learned: Be patient. If I had stayed with the pond and destroyed the bubbles earlier I could have prevented that mess.

It's a shame because until now, all things had come out really nice.

[OSHIROmodels]

That can be heart wrenching when it happens 

Could you put some plants of the surface to look like lilly pads or some such?

cheers

James

[Captain Blood]

I think overall that is a lovely board. Well done.

I regularly screw up the water in all my terrain projects. Water is the hardest thing to get right. I think your pond looks fine. My rivers are full of bubbles. It's like the Woodland Scenics 'realistic water' never cured properly. When it gets hot, more bubbles appear. Infuriating. So you are not alone.

I guess the answer is to experiment first with the materials you are going to use, on a small test piece of terrain - just to get the measure of how the wretched stuff behaves.

But don't be too depressed, it's a great-looking terrain board overall. And the next one you make will be even better, because you have learned so much from making this one 

[jmilesr01]

I've had this happen to me - resin is always a dicey thing but when it works it works well

you might consider putting a floating "log" along the line of bubbles to hied then a bit - just a thought

[CptJake]

Clearly Grendel's mommy lives in there and the bubbles are coming up from her lair.