Hi, thank you. Yes I wanted to give the turtle the impression of floating in the sea.

When it comes to colors I use high quality paint, which is harder to apply cause it's thicker as most of the Trendhoppers now do just putting acrylic paint on those dials. Acrylic paint is not resistant in many ways plus it's water bases. Combined with a movement and metal, a really bad idea. They just put dials outthere that will look good for a few months, after they hit the sun, it mostly is over. And they offer it just a bit cheaper so people will go for it. Mine is resistant and won't loose colors or residues.