Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Alright, I changed my mind and I don't think I can go back and fix it...

Hopefully someone else has experienced similar. I modeled up my Deathwing, finished painting them, based them, and on a few decided to make puddles of water to march through. Not thinking, I painted the base in shades of blue and proceeded to add the Realistic Water over it. It dried and looks GREAT! I was really happy with the result. Though, now in hindsight, green would be a better color for the water (Dark Angels and all).

I'm thinking of painting shades of green over the existing water and adding a thin layer of water effects over it. If it looks murky, fine. The blue water looks a little too clean as is anyway (as happy as I am with it). Fortunately, I've got one left to do, so his water will be green from the start,

Help is very much appreciated!!!

I cant help without pictures.

So I will only say, I hope your marines are suitably grimy.

I'd like to think that (a) I could figure out how to resize my pic, (b) I could figure out how to post it here, and (c) I could figure out my Macro function on my camera, but no, I can't...

So I guess if you want to check out my article titled "Deathwing", there's a super huge, blurry pic of my problem there. Maybe when I get up in the a.m. I'll try it again.

Me + computers + being tired =

a. I work with MSPaint. because its there, free and compatible with anything. If in doubt always choose the lowtech solution. Forget professional art packages and all their layering crap etc uless you truly need it.

Load up your image and then from the IMAGE menu choose STETCH/SKEW.

Add a figure into the stretch, just make it the same for each. Each time you resize you lose some definition, reducing then reexpanding will not get you the same picture as the original. I resize my cam photos (I have a 1.3Mpixel) by 50-80% depending on the photo. If the filesize is about 40K :p you have it about right, generally 25k to 80k is right for web use.

b. Get an account with one of the webhosting sites. Choose a free one. I use photbucket. When you load an image on photobucket there will be a 'direct link' coordinates given. Copy paste those here.

c. I like cheap cameras without all the doodahs, makes life easier. Just take the pictures and see what happens. I find that all you need to play with are zoom and flash. All resizing should be done through MS Paint or another picture editing tool afterwards.

There's some nice acrylic gel media you can get that can be ruffled up and look like water ripples. Can be coloured with paint.

Right now I'm wondering about painting over the water surface and then applying the "water" over that. Anyone know how that comes out?

In my experience you should paint a wash of green rather than solid green. Get it to the consistency of ink then paint that over to dull the colour, and maybe add some brown like graveyard earth in as well. Get a mixture of colour so it is not all bland and solid, even a limited marbled effect can look good. When you put on the second layer of water effects it adds significant depth to the water, so is not good for very shallow puddles, but for deeper bodies of water it can look great. It might be worth trying it out on a spare base you might have before you try it on your actual painted models as well.

Thanks.... wish I'd thought of that last night, I might be able to finish the test by tonight... guess it's going to have to be a weekend project...

I wouldnt paint anthing on the watereffects that you have now, instead i would mix either:

a) green ink with the water effects, this should create a semitransparent green layer over the blue.

b) yous a watered down green paint and swirl it in the water effects. This will create a nice swirl effect, and if you can get it right it could even give the illusion of movement and ripples in the water. you can also do multiple colors this way such as other greens or browns

The problems that i forsee you having are these:

a) there is bound to be a layer of dust and stuff on the top of the previously poured water effect, these will stand out when another layer is put on.

b) if you paint the top of the resin green, then pour another thin coat of water effects on it will make you puddle look very odd. (it will not be deep enough for what it should be) and it will look more like green paint that has just been glazed over.

Hope this wasnt to late and might still help.

all and all if i were you I would just do any future ones different, and eventually work on rebasing the old ones.

Just a quick comment on the picture resizing... I never resize mine, the forums just seem to fit them to the screen by themselves. At least they do for me, and no one's yet complained about me posting huge pictures.

For the macro function... Mine uses a tulip icon for it.

Heard about the tulip icon, but mine doesn't have it.

As for the water... I modeled a base into a crater, and I'm waitin' for it to dry. Then I'll see how it comes out.