Thanks Peter San and Ralph for your positive comments.
I've finished the quayside, so now I'm concentrating on the water. The previous coats of acrylic served as bit of a sealer for the polystyrene 'water'. Then, after coating the painted polystyrene with diluted PVA, I spread a slurry of polyfilla all over and moulded small waves, made the sea a bit more lively by the stone breakwater and generally messed about with the surface.
A second coat of diluted PVA was applied. Now that's dry, I am building up the colours using cheap acrylics in various shades of blue and green -wet on wet.
Once I'm happy with the sea colours, I will get out the silicone gun and add some detail.
Here are the first stage pictures. The colours are a bit loud, sorry.
See the quayside ground? Due to the very small scale, I wanted a very fine something to sprinkle on the base.....We have a dog and she is fed that dry mix pellet stuff you get in a big bag. We came to the end of the bag the other day and as I tipped the dross out, I noticed this very fine beige/brown 'dust' at the bottom of the bag....Bingo, this is what you see here...perfect scale!
The filla wavelets ready for further treatment and the blues....
A couple of general views.
Next up, more work on the sea colours and adding the silicone.
Cheers,
Ron