Watery Grave

[Ray Dunakin]

Beautiful! I like all the rusty metal bits.

[Gordon Ferguson]

Coming together well Marc, it's a looking good  and worth all the work you have put into this piece!

FWIW ... Orange alge spots, when I did these on the "wall" I found the best way of both getting random spots and a variation in thier size was to use the "flicking a brush" approach, this combined with some masking to control the area effected and some increase in size afterwards with some additional brushwork.

[marc_reusser]

Thanks Ray!

Gordon; Thanks, great tip. Will give it a go. (Suppose you now want a foot-note or credit  )

[mad gerald]

Marc,

I'm going d'accord with your concern that this effect can easily be overdone, apart from the circumstances that you are working under (time) pressure in this case and so aren't given leeway for further approaches ...  

Dont know if this image helps or hurts the discussion; but as time is up, here is as it stands for this go-round.

... my impression is, that regarding this pic the yellow spots look quite right especially in the lower section of the hull, but I still would see some room for improvement along the middle section ...  

Nevertheless a great piece of modelling!

Cheers

[finescalerr]

I still think you should throw it out and start over. That excuse about "no time" is flimsy. But, assuming your excuse to be true, I would consider the results most satisfactory. -- Russ

[marc_reusser]

My life runs on "flimsy excuses", copius amounts of coffee, and Xanax.

[marc_reusser]

I got a nice and very helpful note (as well as some photos), and a Wiki link, from forum member Bill Gill re. the orange lichen...."Xanthoria parietina"....very useful and interesting (at least to me) ....and thought it might be of use/interest to some others as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthoria_parietina

[Malachi Constant]

You might be the only modeler actually trying to model lichen!  (Rather than use lichen to represent stuff that doesn't look like that)  (Does this make any sense?)      -- Dallas

[shropshire lad]

You might be the only modeler actually trying to model lichen!  (Rather than use lichen to represent stuff that doesn't look like that)  (Does this make any sense?)      -- Dallas

   No .

[Barney]

Outstanding - top marks for detail and attention to those little bits and pieces that are often missed out .
Barney 

[Malachi Constant]

You might be the only modeler actually trying to model lichen!  (Rather than use lichen to represent stuff that doesn't look like that)  (Does this make any sense?)      -- Dallas

   No .

Yeah, well that figures ... I speak English as a foreign language! 

For many years, modelers here have used (actual) lichen to model trees and bushes and such ... and it's not very convincing, because it always looks like lichen!

Now, Marc is actually modeling lichen ... but in scale ... new twist ...

[shropshire lad]

You might be the only modeler actually trying to model lichen!  (Rather than use lichen to represent stuff that doesn't look like that)  (Does this make any sense?)      -- Dallas

   No .

Yeah, well that figures ... I speak English as a foreign language! 

For many years, modelers here have used (actual) lichen to model trees and bushes and such ... and it's not very convincing, because it always looks like lichen!

Now, Marc is actually modeling lichen ... but in scale ... new twist ...

    Oh , they've been doing the same over here for just as long . It usually always looks rubbish . I also use a type of lichen for my bushes . But that doesn't look rubbish . Well , not to me it doesn't .

   Nick

[finescalerr]

What if it doesn't look at all like rubbish and even looks terrific ... but still IS rubbish? Have you ever considered that possibility? Of course not. That is why you have spent so much time in the corner. -- ssuR

[marc_reusser]

Oh , they've been doing the same over here for just as long . It usually always looks rubbish . I also use a type of lichen for my bushes . But that doesn't look rubbish . Well , not to me it doesn't .

   Nick

Well, if you rarely, if ever, post any work, how are we to judge. 

M

[TRAINS1941]

Beautiful work Marc.

That boat looks more like a sunken boat than a real sunken boat looks!!!
Does that make sense?

Jerry