E-Z Water question (for the experts, lol)

[justjohn]

Ok, I had a brain storm earlier today.

Is anyone familar with woodland scenic's E-Z Water? It's basically little acrylic beads that you melt and pour to make water for model train scenes. I used it a long time ago (like 8 years) to make water for a WH battle field.

Now that I have that out of the way, I glued my glacier bases onto my glaciers the day that I got them. I took one off today for a custom I was doing, and noticed something: the hollow interior is somewhat detailed, albiet, not as detailed as the exterior.

So here's my brainstorm:
What about using the interior of the glaciers to mold slightly smaller, slighly less detailed acrylic reproductions using E-Z Water. Now, as I said, it has been a long time since I used the E-Z Water, but I recall it was fairly unmessy. If I chill the glaciers before pouring in the E-Z Water, I think it would help the E-Z Water from totally adhering to the glaciers.

I dunno. Any insight on this idea before I ruin a glacier would be greatly appreciated!

[Rhydderch]

Sounds like a neat plan. I'm not too familiar with EZ water though I have seen it in stores. If nothing else you may end up with a heavier glacier! =P

[Agent Minivann]

I saw that stuff in the store the other day and thought there was some use for it. I wasn't sure what to use it for, but this might be the ticket. Let us know how it works.

[Malechi]

And, of course, give us some pix!

[Llamaman]

you could also make more water by surrounding a water (or glacer bases, for bigger ones) with terrain, then pouring the stuff over it so it only covers the water. you couldnt stack it, but it still probably work.

[srmalloy]

you could also make more water by surrounding a water (or glacer bases, for bigger ones) with terrain, then pouring the stuff over it so it only covers the water. you couldnt stack it, but it still probably work.
Another thing you could do would be to lay out a bunch of water tiles linked together in whatever pattern you wanted -- for example, making 7-hex, 3-hex, and 2-hex groups -- in a low-sided container like a baking sheet, sticking them down with something like rubber cement or another temporary adhesive so they won't shift on you, then spraying on mold release before pouring RTV silicone molding rubber over them and letting it cure, then peeling it out carefully, giving you molds that you can use to cast larger hex groups of water -- or ice or lava -- tiles.

[outtakontroll]

This sounds very interesting ! I have never seen, nor heard of this "E-Z water" I will do a search now. I will keep an eye on this thread hopeful of more information.

....................outtakontroll

[mrbistro]

I wonder if it could be utilized to make a waterfall?

[Malechi]

Like you need more water with all the sets you just won (http://www.heroscapers.com/community/showthread.php?t=3447&start=0) ...

:roll:

[auralerogeny]

I'd be interested in seeing how this works out as well...if this works then we could make duplicates of the ice peaks, then paint them to fit in with the rock terrain, or even finally have some sort of volcano!

I wonder if there would be some kind of putty medium where you could mash one of the terrain tiles in, leaving a negative of the tile. Then you could stick your liquid water beads into the negative mold. If you did several, say a batch of twenty molds, then you could make as many as you wanted in a few hours...

Also, you mentioned gluing your ice peaks down to their bases...I understand that this makes it a little easier to set up, but don't really see the need. I like how easily they come out of their bases. Whenever I want to see what is going on behind an ice peak, I simply lift it out of the base. This saves me from getting out of my seat as much. I do end up walking around the board several times a game, but lifting the ice peak out of it's base saves me a trip or two around the table, and helps speed the game up to a small degree.

[Joah]

I'm curious how this will turn out.

Please report back.

[GaryLASQ]

don't forget to add in some glitter. it ain't HS water if it doesn't sparkle.