I’ve built a small diorama basic for the ship. It’s a piece of framed wood plate. The plate was painted with dark blue then I painted irregular light blue stripes to simulate the depth. The ’water’ is a piece of shower door glass. The smooth side of the glass was painted with well thinned light blue. After drying I glued the glass to the wood plate with the grainy side up. I used a special glue. Unfortunately I didn’t find the proper English word, thus I try to describe this glue shortly. It’s a white gel which becomes colorless after drying. It’s used for gluing glass parts of hobby aquariums. Maybe you can get a tube in a hardver store.

After gluing I painted the grainy side of the glass with light green and after drying I glued the hull of the kit to the plate ( the hull was painted earlier ). Then I took a small portion from the above mentioned glue and spread it on the glass around the hull (see pictures). What you can’t see on the pictures is the final phase. The waves will be painted with white but it’ll be done later.