I also managed a nice washed out rainbow coloured patch at a canal wharf, representing some spilled oil (in my case coal tar), using thinned matt paints over matt grey with the area then washed with thinned gloss varnish. The photos below, taken at a shallow angle, show water on a summers day with a very blue sky (left and centre) and on a dull grey day (right). Some people add actual sand to provide texture but thus far I haven't bothered with that. The sand is visible close to the bank so add that to the colouring. Canals generally have fairly vertical sides, rivers tend to have more sloping banks with more 'sand' along the edge. I usually opt for a greyish colour with just a hint of blue.
At steeper angles water tends to be more grey, if the water is shallow you can see the bottom but only if you are looking directly down into the water. The colour of river and canal water is always a problem, water is only blue when seen at a shallow angle on a sunny day, when you get a strong reflection from the sky. This produces a flexible river that is easy to roll up for storage. On a model railway layout I tried adding short streaks of gloss varnish on a matt painted base to get the effect of ripples, this did work but it was a lot of effort to get it right and it was no better than a thin coat of gloss varnish.įor toy soldiers in 1:72nd scale or 20mm I plan to use an idea I got from Red Beard Baron on YouTube was to use strips of cloth, painted in darkening shades of blue (as for the pond described elsewhere) and with brown acrylic caulk or sealant for the banks and clear silicone sealant for the river itself.
HOW TO MAKE WARGAMES TERRAIN RIVER CRACK
More recently people have been using two-part rsins to make the water but that stuff tends to leak out of any tiny crack and makes a real mess. The standard method for making these is to use rectangles of base with the banks built-up and the water painted on and coated with gloss varnish. Rivers and canals make useful obstacles for toy soldiers to deal with. Plastic fake aquarium plants cut up and based do the shrubs at their feet or in separate clumps.Wargame scenery and terrain - Rivers and canals, civil and military bridgesĬanals, Rivers, Civil and Military Bridges a 2 inch/50mm tree will do as a sapling for larger scales or a mature tree for this scale. N gauge and HO scale trees can do the large stuff, Bundles of plastic ones from Ebay for railway scenery can be very good. Rubble piles are not something that are very scale specific either. they have a few buildings that are near perfect for shanty towns. The Square: Crisp, simple and paint well, serious bangs per buck. However the Vietnamese hooches (straw with unrended walls) and village (3 hooches on a diorama base)are very worthwhile getting if you are thinking about games in an area where such buildings exist. Kennington: (now owned by SHQ) Moulds are old and on the way out so see before you buy. I have a good selection of resin buildings My Roads and rivers tend to be S&A scenics, along with hills, marsh clumps and other items. one for a 15 or 20mm scale would be perfectly fine for a single track or stream. for N guage/10mm, A road or river marketed for 28mm would make a good two way road or canal. I do Nam and banana republic games in 10/12mmĬommercial roads and rivers for larger scales tend to be free-er of scale.
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