Xmas Present - Modelling - Theme: "A Storm in a Teacup"

So I didnt follow one idea of how to do the waves. I mixed three youtube videos together:

the first one I used was the toilet paper technique from this video:

Things I used from this:
– How to build up the toilet paper / with modge podge
– general idea of mixing colours
– the use of water effect resin as i have never used it

the downside was his scale/waves were not as majestic as I needed.

so I mixed the TP technique with this video:

This video opened so many doors, this is the video where i thought i could do this, but using milliput as the base.
because of the milliput i missed his early steps and although i agree the water colour paper looked great, it was too much effort for my small area. The toilet paper seemed much quicker for the job i needed – and proved as much..

I layered up the toilet paper about 3-5 layers deep. I used the above video to again improve on my big wave colour pallate and to be honest this video was a god send!

I used layers to add extra bumps in the sea which the last youtube video and the one above really hit home with me (dont make it too flat!)

the second and last one had one thing in common the mix of sealant (transparant) mixing it with white spirit and globbing it on. This makes the surface have undulation. If I am honest. THIS. IS. THE. KEY. without this the sea realism isn’t there!

And then lastly this and the last video pushed home, working on the foam using specialist foam textures (thanks my local friendly modelling shop – Shout out to gravesend modelling centre! Where i bought some extra “deluxe materials making waves”

The below pictures show the end product from following the second video.
After the toilet paper
building up the colour pallate
adding water texture resin
adding the transparent sealant + white spirit mix
adding some white paint
adding ‘making waves’
adding some more white paint

the third youtube video was this one:

which i took technical elements away from to reinforce the second video