First, a brief background: I am currently working on a display for our museum that involves a basic recreation of the aerial torpedo attack problem. I am currently planning on basing it on a slightly modified version of the
diagram that appears at 15:00 in this video. The idea is to use a scale model of a TBM Avenger in a pose somewhat like
this and some Japanese ship.
Obviously, I want to have something resembling water to cover the bottom of the display. However, I don't know what to use. I was hoping you guys could maybe offer some suggestions on what that could be. The display is a glass case that is roughly 4 feet square, so it has to be something that can cover a relatively large area. It also has to be something that can have some form of lines placed on top of it to represent the lines in the diagram from the video I linked to above.
I would like to point out that I have
zero experience making any sort of models or displays. There is another person at the museum that has a good deal of model building experience, and he can assist me with finding and building aircraft models themselves (although your suggestions would still be appreciated), but we are kind of at a loss for how to cover the bottom of the display with water.
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