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I had some info on that one mate, just not in the logical order my brain needs to properly understand this stuff ... :blush: Laurence

Of course, my apologies for not being very specific. The water has been on my mind for a long time, waves, shapes, all of it. I have been watching videos on youtube on others making dioramas showing water of all kinds, from oceans to waterfalls, lakes, puddles, rivers, you name it. Materials...

Thank you all for the kind words, and a special note here ... Luiz, good to see you my friend, been a while. Sadly I got some orange peel, because I didn't know what I was doing with the Tamiya clear spray. I got the can, shook it for well over a minute - not good #1 - should have dipped it...

Thanks for that Bob, these are always helpful. I have always been tempted to do a corvette in rough Atlantic seas, but I got to do the Bismarck instead. Maybe in the future, who knows ... Shaping the water is what I am working on at the moment, slowly, very slowly. This is what it looks like...

Right, more work done while waiting for the "water" on the Bismarck dio to dry. Tamiya clear - spray and it wasn't easy to get some with the pandemic stuff going on. This is after the 5th layer. Those thin red stripes ...:ph:... the decals are very nice and easy to work with, but, for some...

Thanks for that Paul, appreciate it. The thing with this diorama is that I had to keep dimensions under control, I did not have a lot of real estate around the ship to make it obvious if the ship was sailing straight or turning. 3 massive props and full speed in a choppy sea tend to create a...

Thanks Bob, that is an epic post - I really appreciate the points you are making and the history too.:tens: Winter in the Atlantic - I like that. Laurence

Thanks Bob, that means a lot. The photo is great. Not sure about calling what I do art, I would rather call it improvisation hoping for something decent to come out of it at the end. I was focused on showing the ship in the Baltic Sea, where the waves are much smaller than in the Atlantic, but...

More work done ... getting close to the height of the waves I have in mind, and hoping I am getting this right. Slowly building more layers of celluclay, it starts looking better. Once the ship is in place, there will be a lot more "water" along the hull, for now it's the water along the hull...

Right, more masking, yay. (sarcasm here) - easier than the masking on the Bismarck I must admit, but still ... Still some red to go in, a thin stripe right near the big blue area. Masking in place for that one. The masking near the canopy is to correct some stupidity of me. Should have...

Well, Kipling is a well known figure, Jungle Book is certainly a fabulous story. The original cartoon, a childhood favorite. Personally I like "If", a great poem.

Thanks Mark, appreciate it. Masking provided is certainly great, the thing is, some strips are not long enough. Well, more work for me, yay.

Thank you :notworthy. Yes, it is big and I have another one, the Mig 29 but that is a bit smaller. More about that one later. Started painting this huge thing, blue first. This is after peeling a lot of the masking off and still more to be removed. Some imperfections near the engines, but...

Ha .... if I were to do a "what-If" I would do that, Arctic and all. He never went that far up north though. Repeating the fact that, the Bismarck was not a "she" but a "he" due to the tremendous historical figure of the Chancellor Otto von. Anyway, more celluclay laid today... First I put...

Lovely work Bob. Messy worker or not, the results are great. As for moving ... yuck.....way too many times to even want to start counting, I'll just say 5 times over the past 9 years alone. The record (distance wise - almost 9,000 miles) is migrating to Australia with a suitcase and a piece of...

Right, while the "water" on the Bismarck is taking it's sweet time to dry, more work being done on this beast. Primer done and wheel bays painted a shade of grey called light sea gull - Vallejo. Have to redo some areas, they are a bit too black. The engines will remain black, awaiting some...

Happy birthday Bob!! :drunks: :drink Anne (Laurence's better half) lol

More work done. With the first layer dry, I started the next layer, which is the foundation for the following one, outlining some shapes and volumes. Not too much done because this is not an even spread and I wanted to try something .... the first layer seems to be sucking out the moisture from...

That is so true, big bird and the details are fantastic - I'm gonna need another display cabinet. Laurence

Happy Birthday Bob and many returns !!! I will print and frame this photo :lol: Loving it :bigrin::bigrin::bigrin: Laurence