Cry me a river

[alcal]

I decided to tidy up my stream /small river sections:
Cheers AL

[Elk101]

Very effective indeed. It's amazing how you've transformed them. The vegetation you've used is very realistic looking. Is there some rubberised horse hair there?

[Queeg]

+3 

something I've been putting off, a road, river and tree/forest overhall ...... I blame tanks for being funner to build !

Brent

[Norm]

Very nice, inspiring and taking terrain to the next level. What is the grey sort of clay material that you use to reinforce the banks etc?

[Ragnar]

Amazing Alcal!  Would you care to share a how to?

[alcal]

The pictorial shows you how to , is there something specific you mean.

The white clay is a mastic tube of decorators CAULK through a sealant gun.

Cheers AL

[Ragnar]

With the water specifically, I am guessing you apply the rippled effect, then paint that with greens and browns and then apply a gloss varnish?

Separate question, do you have any issues with warping of the MDF?

[Cecil Gaybody]

Dear Boy ,
What a wonderful up grade , bravo ,
and ł love Julie London as well .

Keep it up
Cecil

[Andym]

Wow! You've really done some amazing work with those pieces! Top stuff!

[Lardy Rich]

Bloody witchcraft.  Burn him!   

Spectacular work. 

Rich

[alcal]

With the water specifically, I am guessing you apply the rippled effect, then paint that with greens and browns and then apply a gloss varnish?

Yeh its the CAULK put on with a paint scraper then rippled up with the arse end of a paint brush,painted brown first then the bluish green at this point and while still wet I dab toilet roll onto the water to lift some of the blue and give  the varied colour effect .Then I lighter blue dry brush to finish and top off with gloss varnish .

Separate question, do you have any issues with warping of the MDF?

No minimal  its 6mm MDF and has held really well,i use MDF 12mm/18mm  for my 600mm game boards for that reason, there can be slight corner lifting but the tables at our club have ribbed raised edges so to combat this I glue 4mm squares in for all four corners and inadvertantley this cures warping as the bend in boards is now lost as the bottom of a bend or warp doesn't touch the table in the centre to push the corners up :-) 

[alcal]

Bloody witchcraft.  Burn him!   

Spectacular work. 

Rich

Thanks Richard

[Lardy Rich]

Al

Okay, a few questions. 

1.  What are the rushes made of?

2.  Where do you get your lilly pads?

3.  What mix of "stuff" do you use to put on the horse hair? 

4.  Can you bring all of these to the Lardy Games Day in Evesham next weekend and leave them somewhere so that I can nick them?

Cheers

Rich

[Ragnar]

Brilliant, thanks for the answers.

[alcal]

Al

Okay, a few questions. 

1.  What are the rushes made of?
https://www.jttmicroscale.com/index.asp


2.  Where do you get your lilly pads?
https://www.jttmicroscale.com/index.asp

3.  What mix of "stuff" do you use to put on the horse hair? 
The seed pods from silver birch trees and then a dyed them two colours then added a blend of different turfs (ie scenic express)

4.  Can you bring all of these to the Lardy Games Day in Evesham next weekend and leave them somewhere so that I can nick them?
Fuck off

Cheers

Rich

Ps The JTT stuff is from US and they do all sorts of great bits , pumpkins , cotton, corn, all great kit m8.
Cheers AL