What any good Venus Campaign Needs

[Traveler Man]

A great idea for the water effect, and cheaper than most other options. Thanks for sharing.

[mikedemana]

I had a question about the material you used.  Since I'm in the U.S. also, can you tell me what store you bought the light panels at and how thick the material is?  And also, what did you use to cut and shape them?

They look great!

Mike

[Alfrik]

Light panel material is a plastic sheet maybe 1 to 2mm thick. Check Home Depot or Lowes in their Lighting section for the panels, they are 2 x 4 feet in size and cost from 5 to 12 dollars depending on the texture surface you choose.

[The_Beast]

Sorry to repeat myself, but did you answer my query concerning your first steps with this material? If it's what I think it is, and I definitely have looked at the sheets as well, I found it difficult to cut without almost shattering.

Of course, I've already, self-referentially, mentioned 'all thumbs' several times in the past.

Doug

[Froggy the Great]

I've tried to make some of my own, and I find that scoring your cuts before carefully breaking it with pliers seems to mostly work - look up techniques for cutting stained glass and that might help.

My problems with the project have to do with coloring.

[The_Beast]

I've tried to make some of my own, and I find that scoring your cuts before carefully breaking it with pliers seems to mostly work - look up techniques for cutting stained glass and that might help.

My problems with the project have to do with coloring.

Good point, Froggy. It is a bit like plexiglas. Somewhat more tricky with curves, I should think.

Doug

[Froggy the Great]

revisiting...I still like your swamps better than what I made.

[Cherno]

It's a cool technique, never seen that one ago. I wonder if plastic sheets with other textures are available, the ones you used have a more rough water look to them, I can imagine a pond in rainy weather looking like this 

[Froggy the Great]

My current project involves 2'x2' panels of the ice-pattern troffer lenses.  I'm using spray adhesive to put bits of cork board onto the plastic as islands.  Depending on what color surface I put the plastic boards on, it can be an ocean, a swamp, a glacier, etc.

Pics when they're done.

[The_Beast]

Thank God, I now know the word 'troffer'! 

Will you be using rough side up or down?

Doug