Full Metal Racket

"Anything worth doing is worth OVER-doing", a wise man once said...

While not completely done yet the basic painting is now once again "done" in the Nauti-room. The last glaze coat is drying now on the coppery colored walls and I will be adding details when it is dry tomorrow like you can already see on the more golden colored walls such as defining the edges a little better and adding some color splotches randomly about where I feel fanciful.

Each wall required three colors, a basecoat, a metal glaze and a top glaze to tone down the metallic sheen some. The bottom coat was applied in a solid manner with a regular foam roller. The metal was dabbed on in stabbing motions with a beat up old two inch hand brush. The resulting more or less random spots were beat down and smoothed in with the stippling brush shown here with a light pounding. This process took several hours and the pound pound pound went on late into the night. Luckily Marsha zonks out pretty solidly and only vaguely remembers hearing any of it. I think it would have drove me crazy like the Tell-Tale Heart or something.

The third coat was applied with a textured roller that left gaps in the paint it laid down as it went letting the previous colors show through in places. This layer too was lightly pounded. I think I got my 25 bucks out of that brush and it held up quite well.

I'm in much happier place with it now. It totally looks metallic and beat up at the same time. I can almost hear far away engine and machinery noises.

It is now time to work on some more of those storage units and the track lighting but first the computer has to come back in so a computer desk project is up next. How do you make a store bought computer desk look like it belongs on a sub? Not the foggiest...but I have some ideas. Check in later!