The World Beneath Our (Wet) Feet
Many of the buildings on Billabong Marina have already been discussed in previous articles in the series and there are still buildings, such as the station, cattle dock and the Tower Ales Tavern yet to be mentioned. However, all of these buildings needed something to sit around, so it is time to discuss the basics of adding scenery, especially the ‘wet’ bits!
“They” reckon that when the Earth was formed it was covered in water. Then the land started to appear. The natural scenery on Billabong Marina was planned from the water up. It didn’t quite happen in this order, as you will notice from the images, but water is a good place to start!
One of the biggest questions, which can raise a healthy discussion among modellers and artists, is “what colour is water?” Sydney Harbour is blue, the Yarra River is brown and the water in the National Park near me is greenish. I went with the latter. This was mainly because I was planning to use the Scalescenes Dockside kit for the dock walls. It costs a few dollars to download the file and you can use it forever. All you need to do is print off another page. The bottoms of these dock walls are green from algae placed there by the rising and falling tides. As I had used this before, I had some green paint to
