Water - Need your help.

[Das_Dirch]

Hello,

I need your help, for my next project. It should be an landing scene in the pacific, with a bunker, a piece of beach and water.
And that's my problem. I used Vallejo Water Effects: Still Water Clear, but it do not work. It seems to me theres is a chemical reaktion with my underground (Wood repair filler, painted with oil colour).
When the water dries, it looks like a very dry and of burst desert soil.

Have you an idea? What do you use to create a good water effect.

Thanks a lot.

Dirk

[Marshall Nay]

Artist's oil color take a very, very long time to dry. They can dry to the touch in a week, but it actually takes years for the linseed oil film to completely oxidize. And the film needs ultra-violet light to oxidize, so they dry more slowly in the winter months.

I haven't worked with the Vallejo water product, so this is just a guess. But my guess is that a solvent in the water product dissolved the oil paint. Perhaps do a small test with modeling enamel or acrylic paint to see if the oil paint was the problem.

I hope this is helpful.