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[StartQuote] I'm currently building Italeri's boat in a dockside diorama tribute to all the boats & men of Ron 33. I'll probably tick off the purists, but instead of building a specific boat number as it appeared at a specific date in time. I'm building a specific boat number, but including subtle details found on other boats within the squadron. Anyway, I talked with a guy who did a dockside diorama & from whom I got the inspiration to do mine. He used a 2 part resin furniture coating to simulate his water(I can't remember the brand off the top of my head). He cut his boat down to be a waterline kit, however I'm leaving mine full hulled, but still only pouring a .25 resin water depth(I can explain how if anyone's interested). Instead of coloring the resin, he painted the base under the resin in various greens & blacks. I'm going a step further & painting the shadows around the base of the pilings & under the dock & boat. As I said, he poured only about a .25 thickness of resin, but with the color under it, it appears to be scale feet thick. I was very impressed with the result! Nice thing is that if you watch the Sunday paper, or Hobby Lobby's web site you can get a 40% off any one item coupon which allows you to buy more than enough product for about $15. if I remember right. Just another idea on modeling still water. I'd really love to model the water as that beautiful aqua marine/turquoise color found in parts of the Pacific, but just can't find any photo reference that it ever existed around Philippine docks. Bummer, but I'll just have to live with murky greens! Blake[EndQuote]
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