Okay, I managed to paint the fig in one day and spent a partof this Sunday gluing the birds in place.

Now I still have a lot of slight color corrections to do andthe base to finish, but as you can see on those preview pics there’s nota lot left to do J

Those seagulls  were all painted  using a mix of inks,acrylics and oil paints! I managed to shorten the time spent in painting one toroughly 1 hour, but I still have 10mn to give to each right now ,

So after having been doing this plaster sea I did a siliconform around it and pour in some lightly coloured resin.. here I am unmolding it

(looks like i am going a bit fast here..)

Let's try to fix those waves on the base. i had to trim thewaves on the underside near the pierced metal plate because those were too highso I pinned that area down while "painting" the surface with moreresin

here are now some acrylic gel to do the waves as well assome first post shading of the waves -as you can see there is stronger colournear the metal..

So well, it looks like I am almost finished except for oneor two extra layer of resin to smooth down the waves, repainting of partstouched by plaster etc.

Still a bit of time before completion will be needed,essentially because i found out it takes me 1 hour + to paint one singleseagull, 1 and the half hour + when the wings are opened. sheesh..

Indeed on this plastic shape I have been sculpting somewaves out of plaster !

What you can see here is the second layer of resin alreadyas the first was used as a sealant -indeed I didn't trust that much my plasticbox!

Its use is to present a sort of flat surface so that after Ican model some waves on the top of it,

here is the plastic shape above which i will sculpt somewaves,  

Plaster is great.

no really it is. Here I can airbrush the plaster with harshdiluted colours and it won't stain too much the boat when I accidentally sprayon it..

I built layers of yellow/grey tints under the cabin andeverywhere the sun doesn't shine of the diorama.

well, then it doesn't look much like a beach so let's soakthe plaster with water which will allow me to "draw" some waves onthe sand with another coat of plaster.

those were drawn with an acrylic brush -the orange oneswhich are stronger and more suitable for the job. It's quite hard to get adecent job still -especially at the place where the metal meets the sand.

and here is the result

Time to paint all over again :)

On with the beach..

here I am tainting the plaster with acrylics

let's position every element on the plaster -argh, let's becareful as the first position must be the last as otherwise the plaster willstick on the boat!

okay, phew, let's trim the plaster in the best possible way

Here is the final weathered boat