The model show is just two days away, so the board had better be nearing completion... and it is, I guess - all hinges on the Realistic water curing enough by Saturday morning to allow the attaching of the waterfalls (and of course, the transporting of the board).
Here's the board with holly tree roots and loose rocks attached:
...and here's the same scene with the added earth blend and burnt grass turf:
The area is then misted lightly with "wet water", followed by eyedropping of scenic glue:
I added some dead grass colored coarse turf as low vegetation here and there at the same time, as well as some "moss paste" (moss turf mixed with glue and applied with a palette knife). Now the entire shoreline looks like a milk tsunami has hit it..
The holly tree trunks received fine branches - I used tacky glue to attach bits of seafoam or supertree, and secured them in place with superglue (how appropriate!). Note the three small tree bits in the first image - these will be the dead bits of tree poking through the surface of the Watcher's pool. I will glue them to the pool area once they are finished.
After the glue was cured, I applied a bit more flexi-bark to blend the supertree bits in. When this had hardened, I painted the fixed areas with Tamiya sky, followed by Agrax earthshade wash and light grey drybrush.
Holly branches are dark brownish grey (or greyish brown), so I airbrushed the supertree branches with Vallejo burnt umber / German grey / black mix.
Using liberal amounts of hairspray, I attached dark green coarse turf as foliage on the supertree bits:
Over on the board side, I proceeded with pouring of Realistic water on the pool area, and a second layer on the creek. I wasn't fully happy with the milkish green color of the creek yesterday morning, and since the resin had not hardened yet, mixed some dark angels green into the first layer. This cured by today, so hopefully, when the second, non-tinted layer cures, the creek will look suitably deep with slimy, dark green rocks in the bottom.
There is again a rather deep layer of Realistic water in the creek, and this looks opaque at the moment. I can only hope that this area will cure by Saturday morning... I'm pretty sure that the pool area will be fine, as there is a relatively shallow layer there. However, something caused a reaction near two of the sunken, dead trees - perhaps the superglue wasn't fully set? Anyway, there are small bubbles forming around these two - the third one is fine and does not show a similar effect:
This is how the board looks now:
I'll keep monitoring the water as the evening progresses, checking for leaks (so far none) and fishing away the froth around the sunken trees...
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), but I use almost exclusively their scatter material, as you can see (and this is just the fine turf - there are more shakers for coarser stuff):
