March 28 2007 | #table setting to do the sea

remember to work outside or with an equivalent ventilated place, this stuff may  certainly be hazardous to your health. So well, here it's at the bottom of the garden.

March 28 2007 | Doing the sea #1

Here's a picture showing you the 4 different steps i used:
-first I poured a whitey-yellow tinted resin at the bottom of the mould, this is to create the waves;
-after the resin begins to set, i took a brush and procided to stretch the stuff along the borders of the moulds so that it produces some kind of jelly;
-then some transparent blue to create the bulk of the sea
-then a final darker and opaque resin layer to "seal" the whole sea.

Now let's wait a full night to see how it goes..

March 28 2007 | The sea #2

oh yeah not bad ;)
These are some pictures taken the following *night* -sorry for the flash- showing the sea after a first layer of sea foam (I will explain the process another day)

March 28 2007 | Adapting the sea to the shore

 I had to cut the base because the sea level would have been to high compared to the ground -well at some point i do definitely want the sea level to be quite high compared to the rest but not up to this point.

March 28 2007 | The sea and the base

 So i used some Magic Sculp as some sceal material between the sea and the shore -I will add another bit of my speciul mix of sand tomorrow!

And here you can notice the big failure of my sea! it is actually *too small* for the shore!
so either i cut the shore (unlikeley) or I add some bits of water/resin on each corner (next week-end)
Sounds like the second solution will be the best!

March 31 2007 | The joint

Here is the joint between the sea and the shore -i will need to pour another layer of resin in order for this joint to be smoothed.

March 31 2007 | The Sea Foam

So here is how I do the sea foam -pretty straightforward and efficient. The trick is to mix very few paint with the acrylic gel because the gel's volume reduces pretty much while drying -if you don't use much, the white colour will be seen only in the places where you put a lot of the mix -the blending will be perfect :)

March 31 2007 | Extra water

I had done the water too small for the diorama! so here's how I fixed that. Waiting for the resin to be half set and then put it on shape on the base.