SRMW Threadwell Textile on the S&S RR

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The color look great for me... I search for long time how to paint base for water.

I think you have answer my question.
Eric

Eric


Thanks for stopping by the thread - I hope this color combination will work. Let's see what it looks like after the clear acrylic is applied.

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John -- Did you make those drawers in the background ("ROOFING MATERIALS, etc.). As I am now trying to organize my basement, I'm looking to steal some good ideas.

Vince


Yes - the drawers were added to my rolling workbench last year. I really like them - I needed a way to organize my scratch building supplies. The boxes under the train table just wasn't working. There standard drawers made from #1 Pine with roller bearing slides. Having one place where I keep roofing materials, or window castings, etc. really helps with finding what I'm looking for.

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Today, was water pouring day on this build. I added some rocks along the left side of the mill pond, and down below the dam, where the river will start, and then poured the first pour of water.





I'm using Golden Clear Leveling Gel for the water. This will be my first experience  with this product. It comes highly recommended.

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A few pictures after the pour was complete.

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I was very happy with the way this product poured.  Thanks to properly executed fluid mechanics the extra poured right over the dam as designed. Now it's wait and see how it cures.

[Jerry]

John waiting to see how this dries.

The coloring seems right on.

The work on the buildings awesome!!

Jerry

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John waiting to see how this dries.

The coloring seems right on.

The work on the buildings awesome!!

Jerry

Jerry


I just looked in on it and it's starting to get clearer in the shallow areas. Keep your finger crossed.

[S&S RR]

So, I have a bit of a setback to report on the Threadwell's build. I thought I would post this sad story here to see if anyone can shed some light on what happened. As, I said above the material I'm using Golden clear leveling gel came highly recommend, but this is the first time I have used it. On the container it says to do a maximum pour of 1/16 inch deep. So here is a picture of the pond before the pour. The distance from the bottom of the pond to the top of the dam spillway is 1/16 inch. My safety so I wouldn't pour it too deep. As you can see in the picture above the access spilled over the dam.

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So after the pour I noticed that the material was getting higher and higher on the stone walls.  It was expanding as it started to cure.   Before I went to bed - about 6 hours after the pour it was at the top of the stone walls - about 3/8 of an inch. No more material was spilling over the dam. S**T. I  also noticed that it was turning clear around the edges down below the dam and that the material thickness was much less in the clear areas than in the center. Maybe it will get thinner as it cures. Here is a couple of pictures that I took that evening.

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So in the morning, I turned on the lights and found this.  


Notice how the depth has gone down on the stone walls.  In the trenches it is back to 1/16 inch thick.  Getting more trenches as it cures but most of that occurred in the first 24 hours.

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Yes - it does look like a frozen pond with overflow. Not what I was going for!

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So after 48 hours of curing here is what it looks like. Ninety Eight percent of the changing occurred in the first twenty four hours.  I'm getting real tired of waiting for some positive change at this point.





The trenches you see running through it are about 1/16 inch thick and pretty clear - the white areas are three or four times that thickness and opaque white.

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Not my idea of self leveling.


Maybe I should model a frozen pond?


Tomorrow morning, I'm going to give it 12 more hours to heal itself, I think I will be digging it out and repainting the bottom of the pond. I'm going to make up a little test block and apply the material real thin to see what happens. So anyway I thought I would post my experience and see what anyone else might think happened. Anyone have a suggestion on saving it? It's too thick to paint over and use as the bottom of the pond.


You can add this to the list as one more reason I hate Plastic and Organic Chemistry.


What would you use for the water to fill this pond?

[Rail and Tie]

That sure looks like it was from having too thick of a layer. As it started to set, the surface tension split the surface. I have had something similar happen when I tried to put gloss thinned modge podge down too thick of layers.  Not sure about the rising issue though...


What about just trying layer after layer of very thin layers of the stuff?  Maybe 1/32 to 1/16".  I have also read that spritzing with Alcohol helps break bubbles and keep the surface tension low. (I have not tried that myself though).


Either way, that sucks on the clean up and re run of such a perfect model....