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.

12:38 PM

Bloggerator said…

They do look pretty nice Stokes.

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

Good find!

Greg

4:38 PM

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…

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

Kind Regards,

Stokes

7:34 PM

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