I am building a model of the new Cooper River bridge and I am having a problem with the scenery.
- The piers of the towers are made of rock from Nova Scotia, each rock the size of a bug, Volkswagon Bug. I have shaped styrafoam into the shape of these tower bases. Then I mixed some glue and water as directed from the back of woodland scenics talus. I laid the glue down and covered it with talus and sprayed some glue over it. Glue is "yellow" wood glue and just found out it dries yellow not clear. Can I keep this and paint it later, rock is two shades dark anyway, or will this look to unreal, it has to look very real. Also will this glue hold the rock to styrafoam. The styrafoam is that expensive stuff with the thin layer of paper/wood on both sides that sign people use.
- The sea floor around Charleston is like slate grey almsot black and has a shine to it because it is wet. What would be the best way to model this seafloor mud? It is also styrafoam. Hydrocal or flex paste? I do not intend on modleing water because I have yet to see any that looks real. So far the bridge looks very good and I realy thought the bridge was going to be a bear and the scenery easy, wrong again.
Thanks for any help or tips.