Modellers often shy away from modelling water because it is considered to be too hard… It can also be really expensive if you have a large area to cover in resin. This week’s video shows a really cheap and easy way to model water using ingredients you probably already have…
Those gaps… It’s all too easy when building to end up with gaps, visible joints, unsightly black lines that scream “model!!” to everyone who sees them. Not to worry… they are easy to fix with just a little putty and paint but there are a few tips that will make…
Foam Brick Walls – Adding Slime! My foam brick walls are all next to water. Painting waterside walls is so much fun as you get to add layers of slime! Water creates wonderful colours and textures and it’s always really interesting to recreate in miniature. Because I had used foam…
Foam Brick Walls – Basic Painting This week I’m painting foam brick walls, the ones we cut last time. This is just the basic brick colours with all the weathering coming next time. Foam is flexible and so you need to use flexible paints, such as acrylics, which have a…
Foam Brick Walls – Cutting the Walls I’m incredibly lucky to have a Mum who bought a new Brother Scanncut and gave me her old one! I’ve been looking for a way to do individual brick walls in both O and HO scale. I’ve also been watching a lot of…
I decided to base my upcoming snow and ice diorama on Lapworth canal locks, near to where I live. There’s loads of water, some moving, some not, space for snow and structures to ice up. It should all be beautiful but of course, there’s no snow there now and there…
