Here's the cured Realistic Water. It dried much thinner than I expected. They warn about shrinkage on the bottle, but this really shrank.
That being said, the natural ripples in the finish do look like slowly flowing water in a shallow stream, so I'm not unhappy with it. What I am unhappy about is the lumps of not-so-transparent silicon that's damming up the river on both ends. I'm hopeful that the fascia boards will make them less noticeable. If I pull them off, it may do more damage.
Today, I added the realistic water effects. I tried not to overdo it, adding some eddies behind the blunt end of the pier, some flow lines from the front, and some coming off some of the rocks. This picture shows it half-dried.
As it dries completely all the white froth will disappear.
While that was drying I decided to paint and put the first layer of ground cover on the back section. I'm going to paint the road next. This road is narrow and won't have a dividing line. I'm starting discussion with Tim at I Love Bridges to see about the arcade that's going to fill in all that space in the back.
One interesting terrain feature that's exposed in this back section is that depression in the foreground. It leads directly over the ravine's edge and begs for a culvert. While I don't want to craft a full-blown waterfall, I think a trickle might be more realistic. The river level's low so it hasn't rained heavily lately, therefore, the culvert would be just a trickle also. Having the water just running over the rocks leaving them wet would work just fine. I left this area without ground cover as I decide on what to do.
This whole area is going to be a vacant lot until the industries come to town. I just was getting tired of looking at all that white plaster.
