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"Creating Painted Wrought Iron"
  • ¼" luan backing
  • ½" hardware cloth
  • ¼" ethafoam®
  • ½" sq. pine moulding
  • Off Broadway
  • Supersaturated
  • Foamcoat
  • FlexBond
  • Trowel
  • Putty knife
  • Preval


How to do it ?

1 Construct substrate to simulate iron gate using ¼" ethafoam®  and ½" sq. pine moulding and ½" hardware doth.

2 Coat all surfaces with multiple layers of Foamcoat.

3 Let dry completely.

4 Do layer of Foamcoat to simulate raw iron under worn off paint (very smooth).

5 Do "skim" layer of Foamcoat to simulate pebble texture of paint over iron as indicated.

6 Base coat with rust metal base.

7 Continue painting to simulate very old rusty grate.

 

Wrought iron

Wrought iron

 

Some of the products used in this project



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