"General questions about realistic water from WS" Topic

Woodland scenics has realistic water,
I've used it a few times on my bases, I've tried to make "muddy" water sevral times, with inks never goes well, I simply want the water to be borwn but still look like water.

But when mixing it with ink, it changes the properties and when it dries it looks more like burnt suger then muddy water. it does say you can mix paints in it, which ones du you recomend?

Second I'm trying to make a small mini diorama for my fathers birthday. I'll paint up a viking chief with his warriors, it will he my father as a viking chief 1100 years ago.

I want to add some streams, and I've seen people make diorames with this water, but how do you "cut it off" making a vertial "wall of water" you need to block it with something? but what and how do you stop it from stikcing to the thing you use to block it?

There are tons of good tutorials on the WS web site and YouTube.

I've used Green Painters Tape as a blocker for floor polish "water".

Try using food coloring. I mix blue, red and yellow about a drop in each bottle. Apply in layers no more than 1/8" thick. Wait overnight and apply again. Three times is my minimum depending on the depth of the water. The stream bed must be painted first in order to get the whole effect.