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I'm planning to build a deff dread using the "xeno stasis crypt" (from the Sector Imperialis objective markers set) as the center torso. I'd like to create a head-in-a-jar effect, so it looks like the Ork pilot of the dread is a head and spinal cord floating in a tube of fluid. What's the best way to make the stasis crypt appear to contain colored fluid? Glaze or wash the inner surface of the transparent plastic bits? Or leave them clear and paint the interior as though it's lit with green light?
   
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Lord of the Fleet






What about filing it with a coloured fluid? There are a bunch of water effects (solid water, etc.), add some appropriate dye and you're good.

If you pour in stages you can even have the head floating in the fluid.
   
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Clear Pvc glue is a common use for this .

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Bodt

I'm confused, do you want a head in a jar? Because that will be almost impossible to paint, and I would suggest making an actual head, in a tube filled with resin or something. It is possible to make a liquid tube effect by painting. I did this on fabius bikes needler a few years ago. There are tutorials on how to do that effect online.
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Did you mean PVA? PVC glue is a pretty aggressive solvent.

PVA is okay but it takes a very long time to dry if it has any significant depth (days to weeks) and it shrinks a lot as it dries. Really not useful except where it will be extremely thin.

The two part resins shrink much less and dry through quickly because they don't require air.
   
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Bodt

Check out the latest golden demon winners.. There was a cool death guard with a nurgling in a tank on his backpack. I'll see if I can find a photo. That was done with resin

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The general idea is to do something like this:



In my case it would involve putting an ork head and other gubbins in place of the genestealer head in the stasis crypt kit. What I'd like to do is give the impression that the tube is filled with a colored liquid, with the head and spine visible through the transparent bits. So I hoped there was a way to do that aside from filling the model with hair gel, resin, or something else.
   
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Filling it with resin is definitely the easiest way. Get one of the small kits of solid water and you'll be fine.
   
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resin could be a problem with air bubbles, if you have anyone locally with an airbrush...

get one of the tamiya clear colours, mask part of the clear off at a suitable angle and spray that on the rest - paint your head etc as usual.

nice tinted 'fluid' inside to look at your model through.

they do a yellow and a smoke colour which could work, the green and red are a bit strong but could be diluted a bit (yellow with green), or just thinned
   
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The resins intended for water effects set slowly enough that bubbles aren't a problem.
   
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Bodt

Nah get a resin for sure. Tint it the colour you want and fill it up. Surely bubbles aren't a problem here? Make it more realistic

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Indeed. 100% water effects.
There are loads of white dwarf features, dioramas, golden demons and just models posted that use it, tinted for murky water, acid looking liquid or various other, the items in show through great.

It’s super easy to use these days too


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Woodland Scenics do a water effect which is great, lots of tutorials on it too
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Bodt

I wouldn't recommend using woodland scenics around an object in a tube. I tried it once and it just dried all warped up around it. It's only really suitable for flat levels of water.

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 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Nah get a resin for sure. Tint it the colour you want and fill it up. Surely bubbles aren't a problem here? Make it more realistic

You can even place bubbles by waiting until it's going pretty goopy and blowing bubbles with a syringe and fine needle, (same technique in reverse can be used to remove bubbles)
   
 
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