How to show water in a model

What is the cheapest way to make a beautiful river, pond, lake or sea for your models? You might be surprised.

Water, whether it’s a river, pond/lake, sea or harbour, is a great scenic effect to add to your model landscape.

And there are plenty of specialist products available (such as Woodland Scenics Realistic Water) that can make water very realistically.

But these are expensive — 16oz of this costs more than 1lt of the material I use, detailed next.

Luckily, there’s a much cheaper solution.

Good old white glue, or PVA as it’s also known.

This is a general purpose glue that can be used for many things in modelling but, surprisingly, if you get the right one it can also be used to make great looking water and very cheaply.

But don’t buy any white glue.

Many of makes don’t dry transparent —  turning yellow or misty when setting — which ruins the look for water completely.

Instead, you want this one.

I use this for all my rivers, ponds and even sea creations and have never had a problem with it turning the wrong colour.

It sets clear every time.

It’s a LOT cheaper th

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