I was getting ready to start on the Harbour, and I needed to add the various items on the quaysides that was going down into the water before proceeding.

I was going to have a small fishing pier and a Carfloat apron, The pier was easy to make:

I made the stonewall from balsa, and embossing the mortar lines with a pencil. I primed it with gesso and painted it. Ready!

But the Apron was a whole different matter, I needed some hoist/balance structure to hold the wires that keeps the actual bridge in position. After some Web browsing, I found this on eBay:

I only had to build the float apron, add some small details to it and paint it :

I then turned to the making of the water.

To start with, I primed the surface with Acrylic white Gesso. Then I made some ripples and waves with gesso and some gel medium:

I was careful not to make the waves to irregular as they have a certain pattern in reality.

I started with a basic medium sea blue colour (Vallejo), and made some variety in it by mixing some sea blue into it. I then followed the waves with a fan brush with some light blue in it:

The next step was to highlight the top of the waves:

To tone it down I added a "glaze" of medium blue mixed with matte medium, I made it translucent enough to just show the different hues underneath.

Then I added the final highlights using pure white on the wavetips to simulate foaming:

To make it look like water I only had to glosscoat it. I used Future floor polish. It is an acrylic polymer clear that turns out very gloss!

I applied it with a wide brush in four heavy layers, and I´m very satisfied with the result:

My next installment will handle the various buildings on the layout.