Fun in the Weird Wild West!

As i feared the black was too stark and as the water effect is very clear it doesnt look to great. Luckily you can remove it quite easily with a scalpel.

So after a quick clean up i mix up some Oak Brown and Matt Black to shade the recess. Hopefully this time itll be a bit more subtle. Worth noting the flow isnt particularly easy to control. Next time i’ll probably go for a bigger area

After applying a few layers, as believe me this stuff SHRINKS when drying, i noticed its wasnt drying flat. Its seems to be following the curvature of the recess. Whilst its not the effect I was after it has created an interesting ripple effect that i think i can work with. Its almost looks like gas is bubbling up. Im claiming that i did it on purpose now!!

As the final finish seemed to stark between wet and dry i gave the base a brushed on army painter gloss varnish to give the mud a ‘wet’ look. Whilst not a perfect finish i think with a bit of tweaking and adding some tufts / twigs etc it could work

So after my initial experiments i think until i work out how to level the water effect a simple solution would be to make the expanse larger and to break up the area with some swampy terrain. I then got a little carried away and have no decided to theme all the Absolute Power bases as if they were summoning around some kind of dark pool. I also realised that Garratt Morgan is a bit of a show pony and would wierd standing in a puddle in all his finery! Also leaning on a cane in mud is never going to end well! So i decided to add some stones to create a crude path to elevate him from the muck. Goddam this project system and it making me think about basing!!! Heres the final result