Okay, what's your favorite way to model water?

The structures are sitting on the Aquatex. Using a paper template of the roughed in harbor area, the glass company cut the glass using long straight cuts to connect the largest areas. The piece of glass ended up with 5 straight line cuts.

The boats sit right on the surface just like everything else. The reflections pull them down into the water. The beauty of the glass is that you can freely move or remove objects sitting "in" the water.

Beautiful scene and picture, Dennis.  I have seen this many times but never tire of it.  Very nice job!

Art

Thanks, Art.

And where do you find this Aquatex for sale??....it is shower enclosure glass. You can buy and have it cut at a glass shop.

Hi Jeff....

Yes, you can go to a local glass shop and if they don't have the annealed glass in stock, they can order it.  The glass comes either tempered or annealed ( heat strengthened ).  My local shop ordered it, and had it ready for me in two days.  Unlike Dennis, I painted the surface upon which I set the glass otherwise it is the same glass.

Alan

Try your local building material recycler.  You may find a used shower door for almost nothing.

Guys...here is another thread going on right now with a LOT of pictures that may help and complement this thread....

Alan

Alan,

Where did you order the Aquatex from?

Thanks,

George

Ok, i did my water vingette a bit differently. But I must admit the aquatec look is really authentic looking.  

I basically picked up a cheap section of plexi glass from home depot and sprayed the underside blue.....then I spread clear silicon over it.  As it got tacky I hit the silicon numerous times with a spoon  to make waves and ripples. Lastly I hit some of the wave tops with white paint to simulate white caps.

Heres a pic of my vignette in my Area 51 section of my layout.

-Pete

Looks great, Pete!

In fact all of these look pretty terrific.  I am going to try my hand at the aquatex approach very shortly.

George

For waterfall, silicone & acrylic paint.

Gary • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 

   Click photo to enlarge.

I see you like the silicon method also.  it gives some nice texture.

-Pete

George.

I didn't coat the glass with anything. And as you can see in my photo, it looks perfectly natural in photos as well as in person. The beauty of using glass among other things is that it can be easily cleaned with Windex without worrying about scratching the surface. Cleaning the surface without marring is a problem with anything that you pour to make water.

I show you how I did it in my book: Realistic Modeling For Toy Trains: A Hi-Rail Guide.