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Hobby Essentials: Water Effects

February 2009·p. 81

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Mark Jones explains how to apply Water Effects in shallow layers and allow each to cure before adding more depth. Gentle handling avoids trapped bubbles, while herbs, beads and tinted mixtures create vegetation, larger bubbles or coloured water. The same material can form thin glazing in model windows; level storage and patience during drying matter because fingerprints or an uncured thick pour can spoil the finished effect.

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ModellingWD 350 · pp. 82–87

Modelling Workshop: Lizardmen Scenery

Chad Mierzwa combines Citadel Woods, older jungle plants and Warhammer 40,000 foliage into varied Lustrian scenery, then builds a spawning pool and an ancient portal. Foam card, glyph plates and deliberately weathered edges supply the architectural character, while sand gives painted stone a rough surface. The recipes unite the pieces through green foliage, earth and warm stone so the separate projects read as a coherent jungle battlefield.

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ModellingWD 350 · pp. 83–84

Jungle Trees and Lustrian Foliage

Citadel Woods trunks receive tropical fronds from the Warhammer 40,000 Trees set, with additional Jungle Plants thickening the bases. Dark trunks and progressively lighter green leaves establish depth, while diluted Camo Green adds moss and lichen. Variations use different foliage, small copses or barbecue-skewer trunks, allowing the same materials and palette to make a varied jungle rather than a row of identical trees.

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ModellingWD 350 · p. 85

Spawning Pool

The Arcane Ruins base provides a foundation for a sacred Lizardmen pool, enlarged with foam-card walls and a raised rim. Filler closes the gaps, carved wear suggests old stone and glyph plates establish its origin. Warm brown stone is drybrushed lighter, then patched with green moss and surrounded by plants; the accompanying material advice explains why exposed foam needs PVA and brush painting rather than solvents or aerosol undercoat.

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