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"Creating a mud plaster over adobe brick effect"
  • 6" thick bead foam
  • ¼" luan
  • FoamCoat
  • Off Broadway
  • Supersaturated
  • Tough Prime
  • Carving tools
  • Trowel
  • Putty knife
  • Preval


How to do it ?

1 Carve 6" bead foam block into adobe brick.

2 Mix FoamCoat with coarse sand and tint appropriately.

3 Coat styro with multiple coats of FoamCoat mixture.

4 Let dry.

5 Carve joint and irregular stone edges as indicated in photo.

6 Build up "plaster" layer edge and feather over surface of "bricks" to coat entire piece.

7 Make final layer of mud with combo of FoamCoat and Tough Prime.

8 Apply as indicated.

9 Faux paint cracks in "plaster".

10 Faux paint edges of "mud".

11 Paint as indicated.

12 Distress as indicated in photo.

 

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Some of the products used in this project



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