How I made this amazing blue mountain river nearly messed it up completely!

Get access to my new tutorial ebook series! Many of the materials and tools I use come with safety instructions. Please always read and follow these rather than simply copy what you see me or other people doing. Making this peaceful blue mountain river diorama turned out to be really stressful! I very nearly lost the whole piece to a mistake, but luckily I managed to fix the problem and turn what could have been a disaster into something better than I’d imagined! In this diorama tutorial I walk you through the steps I took to make this amazing piece of realistic scenery. I used new water effects (new for me, anyway) as well as my trusty epoxy resin and Mod Podge. I hand-carved the rocks from Sculptureblock, which, it turns out, is very different from extruded polystyrene (xps). It’s possible to carve hyper-realistic rocks quite easily from this foam, but if you’re planning a build like this then I would use ext