I got to thinking about this idea and thought of a further step.
Put a solvent in your airbrush. You could creat specific drainage
patterns and washes and gullies. It would go only where you sprayed it
and you'd have more control.
Terry
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 18:30:37 -0000
> From: candfcalico
> Subject: Beautiful rivers and ponds the easy way
>
> Now that I am 70 years old, I am beginning to find
> that luck is the
> most important characteristic of a winner. For
> instance, I have
> always struggled with saw, hot wire, knife, etc. to
> from my rivers
> and ponds. It was very difficult to have a nicely
> contoured shape. It
> was impossible to have a gentle or steep slope to
> the water without
> building up the sides. But as I was struggling along
> with our 6th
> layout, I flipped my paint thinner rag on my train
> top, muttered some
> and went out of my train room. Now my train table
> top is hardboard,
> topped by two insulation sheets, each at 3/4"
> thickness, for 1 1/2"
> The next day I picked up my rag and looked in
> amazement. There was
> the perfect pond, about 15 inches in diameter. It
> had an uneven shape
> contour with a scrolled shoreline. The sloop went
> down 3/4". In most
> of the area it was a gentle slope to the bottom, but
> in one area it
> was quite steep.
> Since then I have made all sorts of shapes and
> depths in the
> insulation for rivers and ponds and house
> foundations and - well, you
> just name it, as I'll be trying it.
> So don't be smart, just be lucky.
> Fred
>
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