Self Made Sea Bases

[cmnash]

For my RJW 1/2400 ships, I’ve been making my own sea bases using PVA soaked toilet tissue:

I’m very pleased with how they have turned out; here’s one in close-up:

Unfortunately, the printer I used for the name labels is not the best quality, so I intend to replace them when I can access a better printer

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[Etranger]

They look good.

[Brendan Morrissey]

You seem to have covered up the brown stains pretty well.

 

(Sorry.  They do look rather good, actually.)

[kyoteblue]

They look good.

[hammurabi70]

I’ve been making my own sea bases using PVA soaked toilet tissue

I am not understanding this; how does one do it?

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[Norm S]

That works well.

[cmnash]

hammurabi70 wrote:

I’ve been making my own sea bases using PVA soaked toilet tissue I am not understanding this; how does one do it?

Hmmm … that probably wasn’t the best way to put it actually – sorry about that.

After gluing the ship model to an mdf base (for the RJW ships they are 6cm x 3cm x 3mm), I ‘paint’ the base with a PVA solution and then put a strip of the tissue onto the glue. Then ‘paint’ the top with more PVA solution.  When the tissue is thoroughly wet, push it into ‘waves’ with  a blunt edge (a sharp edge will just rip it).

I then leave it overnight to dry, tidy up the edges with a knife and then spray undercoat the whole thing.

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[hammurabi70]

Very impressive.  Not sure how you make the underlying sea terrain fit in in the same way!

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[cmnash]

hammurabi70 wrote:

Very impressive. Not sure how you make the underlying sea terrain fit in in the same way!

I’ve got a sea mat from Tiny Wargames.  I think they’ll be a pretty good match, but actually haven’t put them on it yet …

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[Jim Jackaman]

Very effective. What’s your recipe for the shade of blue?

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[cmnash]

Jim Jackaman wrote:

Very effective. What’s your recipe for the shade of blue?

It’s a tester pot of ‘Royal Sapphire’ from Wickes – https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Colour-@-Home-Vinyl-Matt-Emulsion-Paint—Royal-Sapphire-2-5L/p/122310

and then a wash of Coat d’Arm’s ‘Green-Grey’

with 2 coats of gloss varnish (the tin said 3 coats, but I stopped at 2)

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[Volunteer]

Do you mean like the eraser end of a pencil? Or what?

They look pretty good at that scale.

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Wernher von Braun

[cmnash]

Volunteer wrote:

Do you mean like the eraser end of a pencil? Or what? They look pretty good at that scale.

Thanks. I was using an old size 3 (I think!) paint brush to put the diluted PVA on the base, and used the other end of the brush to move the tissue around.

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