Water Kit-Set na tvorbu vodních ploch

A set for modeling a sheet of water

A water surface is the most thankless part of a diorama. Dry scenery can be corrected endlessly, whereas poured water is irreversible: once the compound has set, the bottom can no longer be redone and a bubble stays a bubble. The set deals with this problem by sparing a modeler from putting the individual preparations together and guessing whether they will get on with one another.

What area it covers

The manufacturer gives a yield of 28 square inches, 180 cm² in metric measure. That corresponds to a surface of roughly thirteen by fourteen centimeters, which is a stream, a pool or a small pond of the usual size of a display scene. The figure concerns the area of the surface, not the volume, so a deeper channel uses more from the package than a shallow puddle of the same plan.

Before you start pouring

• The bottom has to be finished and colored before the surface comes, as afterward there will be no access to it.
• The basin has to be sealed, as liquid compounds get through even a capillary gap.
• It is poured in thin layers, as a thick layer all at once sets unevenly.
• Ripples and white water are finished only at the end, onto a set base.

The depth of water is not created on a model by the real thickness of the compound but by the color of the bottom and its fall. A blue bottom looks like painted sheet metal, whereas a dark middle with gradually lighter edges creates the impression of depth even with a layer of a few millimeters. A river or a sea in a size other than the one given can be made too, only a corresponding multiple of material will have to be allowed for.