After I tried out several water texture possibilities I was looking for the quay wall texture I want to use.

I had bought the dock edge pdf’ s from Scalescenes in the past. This has two options a concrete one and a stone one. I found the concrete one to modern for my diorama.

CGtextures.com has a lot of nice textures. They have also some useful dock textures in their collection. I tried several but tried out the concrete one: ConcreteBare0280 (Texture: #35243)

I decided to try out the stone wall texture from Scalescenes and the concrete texture from CG textures.

Both textures are printed on water color paper to get some more texture.

Concrete wall, concrete pillar with water try out no.1: paint & varnish

I found that the stone wall looked to flat after printing. So I gave it some more texture using embossing pens. These are used mostly by people that make scrap cards.

The stone wall before embossing …

and

after embossing with water try out no.4: acrylic paste, paint & varnish and a wooden pillar.

Don’t mind the gaps between the water and the quay. There are there because a glued the quay wall on the try outs. The dock edge is just a try out to see of it will work out.

I will use the dock edge color as on the pictures. Both pictures are now without any weathering.

On my diorama I will use the stone quay wall for the following reasons:

• I like the embossed texture &
  
• the colour is lighter. That is one of the rules I mostly use. Building up the diorama with (when possible) light colours in the front and darker colours to the end.
  

Regards,

Job