Swamp template No. 1, part 4

So, I may have skipped about 2 steps in my swamp template process. I'm sorry. I'm using Anthony's digital camera, and he needed it. That and I was impatient -- I'd just found this product, Envirotex Lite, that makes wonderful water, and I had to use it!


Sooo it looks OK! I'm not happy with the grass; in the future, I'm going to have much more of it, at several different heights, and in much larger patches. I'm also going to plan ahead on lilly pads -- they need to be added to the Envirotex before it dries too much, and they need to have a dangling stem so they seem like they're part of the water, not simply floating 100% on top. (Real lillies -- one of my favorite plants -- are often partially submerged, and they have rippled edges. Mine fail to have either of those qualities.)


Here's an overhead shot, where you can see the fish in the lower left corner, as well as the crawdad across from him. I'm going to add a thin bead of Woodland Scenics "Water Effects" on either side of the fish's fin so there'll be a subtle ripple effect.

Wait, what was that? Where's the crawdad?


The lesson here: Envirotex has a native amber color to it (it's slight, but clearly visible in the first picture), and it drowns out weak colors, like forest green and velvet red (or, eh, Citadel's "Dark Angels Green" and "Scab Red," I guess). The fact that I dyed the Envirotex with a mix of brown, black and green didn't help one bit. In the future, I'll brighten up such cute little additions so they're visible.