Hello All:
I want to add a boat to resin water. Do you suggest I place the boat and then add the resin to the dockside bay, or do I place the boat as the resin hardens. Any suggestions as to the best product to use in this case or are they all about the same.
Thanks.
Bobby44
if they are flat bottomed, like the WS canoers or fishing boat, then a drop of school glue is enough to keep them from moving around. That is what I did in my lake.
It can depend on the boat design. I am just finishing a Bluejacket lobster boat for the Boothbay Railway Village layout. It is a flat bottom waterline model. The instructions say that the hull is 1/16" thicker than the design waterline. You can sand down the hull by 1/16" and glue to the water surface. The alternative is to pour the water almost as deep as you want, secure the boat to that surface, then add more resin to a depth of 1/16". The boat will then show a but of hull below the water surface.
Resin has the tendency to be wicked upward on surfaces in contact with it. You can embed the hull, but you’ll find yourself fighting the wicking. Alternatively, waterline models won’t suffer from this if placed after the resin hardens.
I have played with resin as it hardens to give the water surface some texture. It might be possible to wait until the resin is past the wicking stage, but before it hardens, to place a waterline model on the “water” surface so that it is in contact with it to avoid any gap between the hull and the water. However, this will require the particular hull to be left in one place, where waterline models can be moved around if placed after the resin is fully hardened.
Hi Bobby,
I like to add my boats to the surface of the resin after it hardens, so you can move the boats around,from time to time, as you can see here.
Sam
Thank you all for responding, it has been helpful.
Rob
Dear Sam
That’s a mighty beautiful scene.
–Jaddie