April 01 2007 | Color adjustement

As I was pretentious enough on that one to fake a light direction, I had to corect the colors and mimic some shadows in some specific places -this is why I had to paint back some parts of the boat/shore in some darker colors..

April 01 2007 | The shore

Once my sea was successfully tied with the ground, i had to create a real shore. I poured another layer of blue-black tinted resin -more black in the longer end.
Then I had to make the foam which I did following the technic below. Another tedchnic I used was to dip the wood or metal parts of the brush and then to just touch the resin surface with my white acrylic gel mix. It created some bigger and flatter surfaces.
I then blended the whole with my brush -normal way.

Just -and yet another time- remember to use FEW paint with your gel!!

April 01 2007 | Shadows/highlights on the waves

Of course i used a white-blue-grey mix to do the foam -not just white. But then those white waves just didn't have any depth to them;
So i got back  a bit of the blue-black mix i used for my resin and mixed it with some Humbrol Clear Cote, and just look at the result: here i do have some depth!

April 01 2007 | The diorama is finished?

Well, I just have the kid to paint but yes it is!

here's what it looked like in my garden one hour ago!

 I only put some black painted balsa frame around it and will have to think of a decent extra frame -though I am so bad at this kind of sport that i will probabaly ask somebody to do this for me.

April 04 2007 | The Kid #1

Now painting its own creation..
I just understand those painters being unhappy when the sculpture is not good enough.
he's very small, but still what a mess!

April 04 2007 | The Kid #2

.. this and my 3/0 brush is good for the dustbin.
I am fairly happy his face will end up facing the sand!

April 04 2007 | Finished? I don't think so...

It takes sometimes some time to really figure out what is going wrong in a diorama.
here I finally found out: the red part sucks.
It's bumpy and the colour is not good. i will have to do everything all over again on this specific part..
That's going to be for next week-end I suppose!

April 06 2007 | Saved by the gong

That's not the first time i save one of my dios at the very last minute. here there was just something not going right, so i had to scratch the whole thing..