Friday, July 4, 2025

Painting the river, part 1

My next project was to paint the riverbed.
I toyed with a lot of ideas and wasn't happy with any of the options I looked into. Then I remembered watching one of Boomer's videos and how he painted his.

If you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch, while it's kind of long and rambling, like most of his are, it's chocked full of good info.

The first thing I did was to paint the river using Tamiya's XF-58 Olive Green.


It goes on kind of bright green, but darkens as it dries.  This is only the first coat.



Next I wanted to give a shallow water look near the sand bar so I watered down some tan colored craft paint so I could do as Boomer did and tried stain painting it on, but when it dried, I wasn't happy with it. It came out too blotchy because I think the pigments weren't as fine as good hobby paints are.


So I repainted that section with the Tamiya Olive and redid it using Tamiya XF-52 Flat Earth. 


I tried something a little different and painted it on full strength and did the same with the Tamiya XF-58 Olive, then I blended them together. This worked much better.


Most of this might be somewhat covered when I start faux painting the main river, but I know it'll be there. 




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