Simple Stucco Wave / Water Effects
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In this technical terrain tutorial, we look at a few ways of using Artex (ceiling stucco) to create simple ocean waves and water effects for your terrain boards. We'll be coming back to these in the near future when we cover ocean colour basics
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Incredibly simple but effective techniques! Thanks for that, Mel:-) I love how you use „the force“ to create waves with solid material 😂 keep going mate!💪
Have always enjoyed watching your videos. Haven't watched any of the newer episodes in a while, and I must say, I'm really impressed with the production quality! Your efforts are really showing through!
We're getting there slowly mate!
LOVE using non-specific products to get good results. Sure, "water effects" products give good results easily, but improvising is so satisfying. I recently did a seaside board based on Duncansby Head. For the water, I painted the board with various colors, using a little white where there would be froth. I used a product that is a clear acrylic-based caulk, designed to be used in places where silicone wouldn't be ideal. Found it at the hardware store. I caulked the stuff all over the board and used a plastic spoon to spread it and form it. I then let it cure over several weeks. The substance settles and shrinks a little, but not much. Made great looking water. Then, I dry-brushed it with white to show the waves and add depth. Some clear gloss enamel over that and it looks great. Very pleased.
Majority of those tiles are suitable for moon and sand type terrains. I’ll give them a go when I build my speederbike diorama.
Great techniques. It would be great if you could do a video where you show how to paint the waves.
On it's way ;-)
Thank's Mel! Another useful tricks!
GREAT VIDEO BUDDY!!!!!!! Love the different effects!!!!!!
Thanks bud
Total Awesomeness
This could be used for showing ships underway diffinety improvement naval vessels look better in action. stay the course Bruce
Should be useful for a Cruel Seas board :)
Love to see how you would go about making a lighthouse, or maybe some sea mines for the game too :)
I use epoxy (the 2 hour kind) for the water itself. Color it with food coloring. 2 drops of blue to 1 green looks pretty nice. Then I go in with a fan brush and high gloss mod podge to make the wave effects
Thank you for sharing :)
Always like this technique videos. Just finished using your rock mould tin foil technique.
And here I am thinking already what I could do with this.
I am looking forward to the gaming board.
PS: Any of those "naval guys" you could recommend?
There's a good naval modelling group on facebook mate
looks ok to me sun day see all
Hi Mel
love your videos and have been trying them out on a larger scale 1/35, I recently did a diorama of the Dunkirk film and created my waves with clear silicone over a painted base, and I stippled the silicone with the back of a teaspoon by tapping it lightly, then drybrushed acrylic paint on the wave tops to show white tips, it turned out really well, not sure how I can post pics on here or I would post a finished pic, keep up the good work fella.
Silicone works well mate, got a tutorial on it coming up
Well, the sculpted wave can also be a "monster" going underwater, or a submarine... or... GO-CHI-RA!
An easy way to do it is to start with clear acryllic and paint on the underside of it, then stipple the top with clear mod podge followed by a light drybrush for the foam part.
The best "museum quality" water I have seen (the guy actually made pieces for museums) was done just that way. Clear acrylic medium with 20 layers of gloss modpodge over top. The only downside is having to do a layer a day. For deep-looking water, that's a lot of days!
@@joshjohnston7388 You don't need to actually do a lot of layers if you start with just the sheet of clear acrylic bought from the store. The only issue it has, is that you need to support it more than a wooden table, so you ought to have a sheet of plywood or similar under it that's either been painted a light color or a dark color (if you want the brighter Caribbean/Mediterranean look, a white or light grey is best, if you want the colder and darker oceans (mid atlantic, north sea, ect) a very dark grey or even black is a good option for it. The gloss modpodge with a single layer of gloss varnish or polyeurethane on top before you hit the peaks creates a solid one that works well.
I'd made a LOT of these a while back with a friend back when Hasbro was doing the naval Axis & Allies miniatures games and my friend was running a tournament so we bought a pile of relatively cheap picture frames with acrylic "glass" that we first covered in painters tape and laser etched the markings required for the game and painted over them with black and then painted the water coloration with a relatively light hand using spray paints that went really fast followed by stippling the top, varnishing it and then hitting the peaks of the waves where the stippled mod podge looked right for the texture and reassembled the frames for it and added some of the thicker round, wooden discs from the craft store to the underside to level it out and put felt under that to protect the tables.
Over a week, and about 6 hours total work, we got 20 4'x4' boards done with two different looks to them, though each was relatively unique due to the exact mixes of the coloration.
@@AzraelThanatos dude that's a great hack! Thanks! This guy has pieces in museums and helped oversee a giant layout for Tokyo's Magic Kingdom a while back, so I trust he has solutions that last. He recommends against styrene under water effects (painted or no) because the outgassing can cause bubbles after a few years, for example. I'm not doing museum pieces. Plus, I believe sheet acrylic and silicone might be very compatible. To the laboratory!
@@joshjohnston7388 The issue with silicone is that it doesn't entirely attach itself that well to acrylic unless you want to scratch up the surface first, which tends to create issues with the effect. While it's uncured, it sticks well enough, but you're liable to have it peel off on you when it's done, but the acrylic caulk can work pretty well if you want to go that sort of direction
I bet you could this techniques to make sand dunes also. Good work
I'd probably use an artex sand shaper for that mate
i was wondering if this material could be useful for making the streaky affect on sand dunes. Or maybe do you have a good technique for good quality sand dunes, i've tried, but all i have is humps and puny hills. Thanks, and awesome work!!
Yep, there's even a specific shaper for sand waves mate
Seen a guy use wet tissue paper shaped to sea waves then painted, looked great
It's an old school technique, works really well mate
Thanks mel, the brightness of the white how ever makes it hard to see what your doing, wondering if stuco would take a little grey paint first
White materials are always a struggle mate, especially when they're wet
Q: Don’t have stucco will plaster of Paris work ?
Mel, check out marklinofsweden’s tutorial if you haven’t already. He uses toilet paper (or paper towel, I forget) soaked in diluted PVA to sculpt ripples and small waves. He’s a pretty ingenious modeler with a great railroad layout.
Wonder how well this would work doing a whole board.. Mmm... :)
Works well mate
Awesome might try one for the October Wargames Association club :)
These look great, but why have you not coloured them. If they get chipped they will show through white and then be a problem to get some colour back.
Chipping won't be a problem, plus its water, it'll get a gloss coat mate
Car body filler
Paintable silicon and smacking it with a plastic spoon
I left this comment elsewhere, but I shall repeat for relevance. Silicone over acrylic doesn't always work well, especially over larger areas. However, I did find a caulk product that was acrylic-based, made to otherwise mimic the properties of silicone, and the spoon technique worked GREAT. Painted wood, caulk over top (thickly), formed with a spoon. White dry-brush on the waves after it cured. Clear gloss lacquer over that. Came out fabulous and I will use it for all my future moving water applications.
"Videos on Colour schemes for oceans"....don't you mean ocean colour scene ;)
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