I'll helping a friend who is modeling a portion of a shallow bay with concrete piers across it. The bay in HO scale would be 1-1.65" deep mimicking the real water. He has the room to model something like that but I was curious about pouring a water mix like Woodland Scenics (like their new water system) or another brand to that depth. 

Should he do the full treatment as usual with painting and mimicking water depth, darkness, etc and pour the full height? In layers? Maybe 6-7 layers in the 1.65" inch areas?

Thanks.

I have been experimenting with using a Pilot Precise V5 Pen in my Cricut Explore One to make nail holes. If you use a very small circle of .001" radius, the machine just effectively make the pen jab a hole.

However, I was noticing that my nail holes where not where I put them. They are all shifted off to the right in the picture above. I am using the Kid Sharp Productions pen holders pictured here:

Having watched the John Cathcart interview (Car Department Foreman at The La Mesa Club) and followed the immensely practical and sound advice given on tuning rolling stock for reliable operation,  I am now a very strong advocate of the process John has developed. The video can be seen on this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brSGhEbQBmM

I am also keenly awaiting the release of Joe Fugate's 2nd book (Rolling Stock) in the "Make it Run Like a Dream" series.