Water Bottles resin set

Clear water bottles for small settings

The package holds two casting sprues with water bottles cast in clear resin. The smaller shape measures six millimeters and the larger eleven, so the difference between them is visible to the naked eye and an irregular group can be built from them. Altogether the set holds twenty-eight pieces, fourteen of each size.

What figures it is for

The size suits figures from twenty-eight to thirty-five millimeters tall, that is the usual format of tabletop games and fantasy settings. It serves just as well in modern scenes, though: a supply point, a market, a crew's quarters or simply a crowded table in the corner of a diorama. It is exactly these insignificant objects that make a setting believable, because the eye looks for them before it finds the main character.

How to handle the castings

Clear resin behaves differently from solid: light passes through it and a bottle looks full after only a thin tint inside the shape. Thinned transparent varnishes work well, applied in layers until the shade is right. Separate the parts with a sharp knife close to the gate and level the remainder with a fine file, so that the base stands straight. Before painting, a short bath in lukewarm water with a detergent helps, as it washes off any mold release agent.

What is not in the box

These are stand-alone castings with no base, no paints and no kit of any kind. Figures, furniture and a terrain board are not supplied, and the sprues are not numbered, so you decide the order of the pieces yourself according to how many the scene will carry.