Swamp, pond, and a ton of Epoxy
Experimenting with colours
Epoxy mixed with Caliban green I added a few drops of acrylic paint (GW) to the Epoxy to tint the water.
The Epoxy is already a bit cloudy, so try to add as little paint as possible.
Epoxy mixed with Kantor blue: looks like Caribbean water..Some Warcry ruins surrounded by water. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look anything like stagnant swampy water.
From this piece, I learned that the Epoxy sets very quickly. I try to play around with a popsicle stick to make some water effect and to make sure the Epoxy ran around all the nooks and crannies. It produced a messy matte-looking mess on the surface.
Tip #2: Epoxy sets in very quickly. Don’t mess around when you are close to the 5-minute mark because you are going to ruin your piece.
Dry twigs. Colour is again Caliban green. Glued some dry twigs. Added thin strips of toilet paper mixed with PVA to make it look like moss or lichen. Not the best result 🙁
Epoxy mixed with Death World Forest: starting to look like a swamp! Death World Forest paint (GW) is the best result so far.
After messing around with standard acrylic paints, I try some GW washes and the result was much better. Any ink would probably work fine, but I haven’t tried any.
Tip #3: acrylic paint will make your water very opaque, even if you add very little. GW washes/shades give a much better/transparent result.
Love the look of your swamp! If you’re tinting resin again in the future you could try the Tamiya clear paints or maybe the AK Interactive Transparent Colors. These should give you good control over the colour of the water without you needing to worry about the cloudiness.
Thanks for the tip!