Brush With Death 2019 Entry

Due to several missteps made during the resin pouring process, the diorama had a large-ish gap between the bottom of the resin layer and the top of the foamcore base.  I thought I might try to gapfill it using Tamiya Putty but – at the last minute – realised this would leave me with an unpaintable white surface beneath the resin.  I instead when to plan B and glued strips of paper across the base.

While this was always the plan with the ends, back and bottom, I never wanted to bring this onto the front of the diorama.  However, time was running out and I could think of no other way to fix the issues caused by my inexperience with resin water effects.

Unfortunately I don’t have many specific photos of the strip cutting/gluing process, but they are visible in the next photos.

After ‘fixing’ the edges, I moved onto the surface of the sewer flow.  Earlier in the month I had researched various water effect products and settled on Vallejo Acrylic Water Texture.  My first attempts were tentative, to say the least, as I was very worried about messing up the resin at this late stage.

It was only when the above layers of Vallejo Water Texture dried that I realised my first attempts hadn’t broken the flatness of the resin pour enough – it didn’t read as rippling water.

I grew bolder.

And bolder still.

This final photo is another layer of the texture effects on top of the first, fully dried layers.

After it was fully dried, I moved onto the final steps which included gluing on the dwarf, repainting the Tamiya White Putty I used to gapfill between the base of the goblin and the foam walkway, gluing on the paintbrushes and paintbowls I sculpted from Greenstuff, and adding spilled paint/footprints to the walkway.