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River bottom - 1st attempt with acrylic paints

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Posted by hon30critter on Sunday, October 9, 2016 10:55 PM

riogrande:

The river 'depth' looks quite realistic! Your scene is off to a great start.

Dave

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Posted by mlehman on Sunday, October 9, 2016 10:11 PM

Jim,

That looks like a great start on the river depths. I also really like the geometry of your depiction of the curving river and the track that skirts it, an identifiable feature of this part of the line.

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Posted by "JaBear" on Sunday, October 9, 2016 9:02 PM

Geomorphology. Oh good, a new word for the day!
Certainly looks like you’ve captured the different depths very well.Thumbs Up
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Posted by riogrande5761 on Sunday, October 9, 2016 7:13 PM

Yes.  Streams deposit sediment on the insides where the flow is slower and erode the bottom deeper on the outer sides of a bend where it is faster and there is more load capacity (IIRC from geomorphology class) and if you've canoed a lot you can observe this too.

IIRC Rob only applied one layer of gloss Mod Podge and it looked great so thats the plan.  Following his blog will jab it with a brush while it is wet so it will have ripples after drying.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, October 9, 2016 4:57 PM

That looks pretty darn good to me, with the shallower water where it would normally occur.  I would think Rob to be a good source of scenic advice, based on the photos of his layout which he's posted here.

Are you going to pour a two-part water product over that, or simply apply a clear gloss finish?

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River bottom - 1st attempt with acrylic paints
Posted by riogrande5761 on Sunday, October 9, 2016 3:38 PM

Thanks to Rob Spangler for sharing his methods with acrylic paints to get a river bottom painted.  I mixed up three small batches of acrylic paint to represent 3 major shades by trial and error and then blended them for the following results.  The photo's are a bit over exposed - new LED lights above.

 

 

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