Cacique Caribe | 03 Apr 2006 8:59 a.m. PST |
Eventually, I guess I will have to make a tar pit. When the time comes, this tutorial seems like it has good ideas: link Are there any other tutorials that might be better or might provide additional ideas? Thanks. CC link PS. I guess I will also need dead megafauna around the edge, at various levels of decomposition. |
John the OFM | 03 Apr 2006 9:57 a.m. PST |
JB Weld dries black and shiny, and even has a tar-like consistency when mixed. |
Dave Jackson | 03 Apr 2006 10:11 a.m. PST |
Use some of those small styrofoam beads you can buy in various sizes form craft stores for bubbling, noxious gas
..Games Workshop's on-line 'zine "Black Gobbo" may have some ideas
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Farstar | 03 Apr 2006 10:46 a.m. PST |
Nice tutorial. Thanks for the link! |
Cacique Caribe | 03 Apr 2006 10:55 a.m. PST |
The "pools" and "swamps" tutorials here might also provide additional inspiration: link CC |
elsyrsyn | 03 Apr 2006 11:02 a.m. PST |
Hmmm – not sure if it would work for your application, but you might look at a model railroad product called Instant Roadbed from a company name AMI. It's an uncured butyl rubber, IIRC, and might look pretty convincing. Doug |
CeruLucifus | 03 Apr 2006 11:30 a.m. PST |
I live near the La Brea Tar Pits in southern California, USA, and I can tell you
at 28mm scale a tar pit just looks like a black pond. In fact it basically _is_ a black pond, or at least a pond with a black bottom; water is lighter than tar so it sits on top. The gas bubbles would be a nice touch, adding a sense of melodrama, but are not necessary. Same with floating mammoth skeletons. I believe a stuck live or recently dead animal would be more realistic — they sink into the tar later and turn into skeletons beneath the surface. The LA Brea Tar Pits museum doesn't have a lot of photos but here is their web site: tarpits.org |
RexMcL | 03 Apr 2006 4:24 p.m. PST |
If you make a pond of white glue and wait for a thin skin to form on top and then put a drop or two of CA glue on this skin, some reaction occurs, forming bubbles which then harden. You might experiment with that. |
Farstar | 03 Apr 2006 4:57 p.m. PST |
If not-yet-popped bubbling is desired, just sink a few spherical beads of the right diameter in the goo and cover them over
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jpattern | 04 Apr 2006 2:53 p.m. PST |
I've also seen modelers used googly eyes for bubbles. Peel off the white disk, remove the black pupil, and embed the clear dome in your pond as the bubble. You can get dozens cheap, and they come in a variety of sizes. |
timdps | 09 Apr 2006 5:49 p.m. PST |
You could use actual tar
. Just heat it up a and pour it where you need it to go. tim |
Cacique Caribe | 01 May 2006 11:29 a.m. PST |
These look great for tar bubbles, don't they? link CC |
Cacique Caribe | 04 Aug 2006 7:35 a.m. PST |
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