The Little Rock Line

[OldEastRR]

There was an article in MR way way back about making lily pads and pond scum. Also way back, how to make cattails. Both were for HO, but maybe you can use the techniques. \

The trick with "poured" water is how to get it completely level. I don't think anybody's come up with the perfect method. For my flat, still water scenes I use thin clear styrene sheets, cut to fit the waterway, and light green coloring on the underside for that murky look. Thinned paint or Magic markers are good. If you don't overdo the coloring you can see the bottom of the pond like looking through water.

[Bendtracker1]

An update on the Bog water.
I did the final (2nd) pour 8 weeks ago on Jan 15. Since then I've worked on the depot, the crossing bucks, and installed the signals, all with in weeks of the bog.

The last time I worked on the layout was Jan 21 as I was getting ready for the Op session on the 27th. In that time I hadn't paid much attention to the bog, other than a passing glance. Just before then I noticed that some areas of the bog was turning much lighter than I had wanted and figured that "It is what it will be" and I'd just live with it.

Since then it's been awfully cold around here and one night in Feb it hit -19° and my basement gets cold in the winter time. So I haven't been down there very much since. Today it hit 70°. With that and that I finished my taxes today, I went down to make up a mental list of things that I need to wrap up and a list of what I want to work on next.

As I walked past the bog I noticed that it was a much darker brown!
Here's a shot about a week after the pour.
It's kind of hard to see, but the far right end of the bog looked as light brown as some of the spots around the banks, but it was fully light brown in that area.



Here's a shot I took tonight.
As you can see, it has that rich Coffee brown color, which is what I was shooting for.
So it seems that the Liquitex Pouring Medium just took some time to properly cure.  I will definitely be using this again for my water scenes.

[Philip H]

That definitely has to look of silty brown swamp water. Well done.

[Bendtracker1]

That definitely has to look of silty brown swamp water. Well done.

Thanks Philip!