Is AK Interactive's "Swamp Green" Water Gel any good?
Вставка
- Опубліковано 13 січ 2022
- In this video, Jon tests out the AK Interactive acrylic "Swamp Green" water Gel (available at amzn.to/3CCR4dr) by looking at a range of tests to see if a one part acrylic gel can get super quick and easy realistic water effects for your tabletop mini bases or diorama's.
**This video is NOT sponsored. Some product links are affiliate links which means if you buy something we'll receive a small commission. **
RESOURCE LIST for this video. Any links below to examples of the bits of kit we use are Affiliate links. Using these links to check out the kit we use (and potentially get yourself), helps to support the channel... which in turn helps us to make more videos! So thank you!
(you may not need all of the below to build your mini, this is just what I used):
EQUIPMENT:
AK interactive "Swamp Green" Water Gel
Amazon: amzn.to/3CCR4dr
It does not matter if you are building Tabletop Mini's, Gunpla, Scale Models, or anything else within the world of modelling. Flying Raven Studios is exploring the world of miniature modelling to help you get the best information so you can get the most out of your hobby.
If you have any questions or comments or ideas, please drop them in the comments and join the Flying Raven Community.
Music and sound effects: www.epidemicsound.com/referra... - Навчання та стиль
As someone who is relatively new to the hobby. Who hasn’t used AK interactive products this tutorial is extremely useful. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Do you have any other tricks or tricks to use with the AK Interactive "Swamp Green" water gel? Or do you have any ideas for other effects you could use this gel for?
If you would like to check this stuff out for yourself, you can find it via the links in the description.
Please hit like and subscribe for more video's like this!
Very helpful, thanks
This video answered so many questions I've been having about these products! Thank you so much for posting!
You are welcome! You may not have seen it yet as it is very new, but I have just added this to my new website www.FlyingRavenStudios.com which may also help. Please let me know if there is anything else you would like me to test out!
Excellent results from some fine experimentation! Thanks for the share!👍
Glad you enjoyed it and you are very welcome!
This is my most favourite model tutorial on UA-cam thank you for this I’m gonna use this on my kruleboyz orks xx
Thats awesome thank you. Have fun with those swampy bases!
thank you so much for this vid. I've been trying to decide how to make swamp bases and this really got me hyped to finish the army
Your welcome and I am really glad you found it helpful!
i make the surface wavy when I want it underneath a sprinkled on substrate. it really adds depthe once the pva is sprayed on to lock it all in
That's an interesting idea. Thanks for that!
Well done, covered many variables and you also explained yourself very well. This was very useful, thanks
Your very welcome and thanks! That is really great to hear. Very much appreciated!
I have just discovered your channel and i must thank you for such interesting material-product reviews.
Thank you very much and you are very welcome! Welcome to the Flying Raven journey! 😊
Thank you! This sounds super daft as I've never used anything like this before but I was super nervous it would stay that opaque green! Really excited for this to cure now :)
Really glad you found it helpful! How did your project turn out?
Wow I didn't expect it to be so opaque. Thanks for testing it
You're welcome 😊
A few years ago, I built some 'swamp' wargame terrain. It looked pretty good, but I was at a bit of a loss as to how to create pools of water. I didn't want to use resin, as, being lets say, 'frugal', (or a cheapskate), I would have had to buy a load of the stuff just to make what amounted to a few puddles. I'd read an article in a modelling magazine that suggested using gloss polyurethane varnish, so I tried that, pouring it to a depth of around 1-2mm. This looked great!... for while, but then it cracked and went yellow/brown, resembling nothing so much as a fungoid toenail. I couldn't get the stuff out, so I abandoned the whole thing to the Cupboard of Doom and forgot about it.
Then... I came across this review, remembered my swamp project, and bought a tub of this stuff. Two coats of this, and presto!, I had the great looking swamp I had originally envisaged (rather than a podiatry teaching aid).
My wife makes teddy bears, and sometimes uses really tiny (1mm) glass beads for stuffing the really small ones, and I found that a few of these dropped into the goo ( so that the bead is at least 50% submerged), create a nice effect of bubbles of swamp gas. You can get them from teddy bear making supply companies, I had a look this morning and they are about four quid a bag. I also found that a judicious sprinkling of scenic flock ( I used 'Grass Ground Cover' by 'Footpath') here and there, makes quite convincing duckweed.
All the best, and thanks again for the review, please keep them coming!
The "podiatry teaching aid" part really made me chuckle :D
I am very glad the video helped and you got a great result on your swamp project though. Also, I love the idea of the glass bead bubbles and the scenic flock for duckweed. I have a swamp project in the pipeline and I will certainly give that a go. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for the video. Helped me figure out how I should use it and what it would turn out like.
Thanks filnbek, I'm glad you liked it and found it helpful
I love! AK Interactive. I have their clear water I use it now and then can just add paints to it or inks to colour it depending on the effect you want :-) AK have some of the best products around I love their paints they are my go to atm along side some scale 75 paints.
Yes their "technical" or effect paints are amazing. I have the clear water in mind for a future project, as you say, you can tint the colour which kinda gives you unlimited options. Looking forward to playing with that!
@@FlyingRavenStudios I'd like to see a video on that, particularly to see how it compares to Vallejo's 'Water Texture'. Really enjoyed the vid, and I've just ordered a tub of the swamp gloop!.
That's a good idea. I will put that on the list! Very glad you enjoyed the video. Let us know how you get on with the Swamp Goo!
Thank you for sharing, this vedio will be my lesson
You are welcome!
Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Used there dark wet mud. On ww1. No mans land craters not bad I thinned it a bit and brushed. It all over. Nice wet look. Looking for some thing to add in shell(holes. So far so good. 😊
Nice tutorial / review. did you try to use some kind of protective coat of camera to see if there will be some kind of reaction on varnish ? And did you try to use different kinds of glue if you want add static grass or tuft with pva glue or some resin plants with superglue ?
Hi deende79, not for this one..... however.... I do have a few "swampy" projects coming up that will be more complex. So, more testing first would be a smart move. Thanks for the ideas!
Just bought some for a dio of a Dino swamp. Dumb question does it dry clear and what Whould you use for a base coat foe swampy water effects. Great video.
Thanks! Yes, it looks very weird in the tub, but it does dry more clear as I found in the video. Depending on if you have a slope into the water or a river bank, then I would continue the colour from the bank into the water. Maybe do a small test piece to make sure you are happy with the effect?
Enjoy, and let me know how you get on!
If you don't have an airbrush, you can blow it with a straw too. :)
Simple yet affective. Actually that would give you more control and less likely to splatter green goo all over your desktop.... so not a bad shout 😁
Enjoyed this video alot mate, i do have a question; im currently making a Kashyyk themed board for SW:L and im trying to decide if im better going with this product, or painting then using the transparent gel water effects? what do you reckons
Glad you liked it! That sounds like a really fun project. Are you looking at large areas of water or smaller areas? How deep are you going?
As for whether to use either this stuff or the Clear water...... As luck would have it, I am currently editing a video testing the "AK interactive still water". I am hoping to have it ready by the weekend. So I hope that will help!
@@FlyingRavenStudios Hi mate, thanks for the reply and yes so far it's been a blast. the area of water is roughly 30x20cm so not huge, but not small either.
i want to avoid expoxy resin is possible due not being too confident with it. Regarding the depth, i plain to put it straight ontop of a foam board, thats been painted, so no real depth. i'll keep an eye out for that video!
Nice.
Thanks!
The 455 sub
Welcome to the Flying Raven Journey!
It still doesn’t look like the images on the tub though.
That is one of the things I am trying to do on the channel. Test things out to cut through the PR to see how various things really handle and if it will do the job for your project. To be fair though, it is pretty spot on for the Vietnam river patrol boat diorama. However, I see what you mean for the other photo on the tub. I am working on a project to test that out more, so we shall see on that one.
I'm not at all impressed! Too shiny, looks like spilled paint, perhaps done on a diarama it might look better but, I'm not gonna hold My breath!...Sorry!
No need to be sorry! Besides, thats the whole point of what Im trying to do, test things to see how they really work. To be fair to it though, It does have a semi transparent depth to it, which is difficult to show on camera. I do actually have a couple of projects coming up where I have this stuff in mind. So we shall see!
Always go in neat. who thins their products :)
Haha... Two thin coats usually does you well ;)