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A Watery Possible Way Forward. . .

 

I opted for the 'Fine Lake' sheets, which I believe is the one furthest to the right.  No raging rapids and gale force winds in the Grand Duchy of Stollen during campaign season, you know.

Poking around Amazon a couple of evenings ago, looking at books (Imagine that!), I somehow stumbled onto these PVC water effect mats, which might be just the thing for easy to use, fairly convincing scenic accessories once cut and trimmed to shape and colored [on the underside according to what I read online], or placed atop a suitably colored surface.  

These might provide a reasonable compromise between less than convincing blue streams and rivers and hyper-realistic but time-consuming model representations of water, resin and all.  We'll see once the mats arrive, but the price per approximately 20" x 10" sheet seemed very reasonable, so I ordered a few to check 'em out.  Click the link above to have a look at the details.

-- Stokes

Comments

Rob said…
These look like a great idea, I shall await your verdict with interest.
Bloggerator said…
They do look pretty nice Stokes.

You could lay your terrain over it to make streams, lakes, whatever.

Good find!

Greg
My thoughts exactly! We'll see once they arrive.

Kind Regards,

Stokes

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