Thread: Want an old weatherboard look - help!

Maybe have a few dirty colours to randomly add to the milk paint so it doesn't look too clean. Or paint a transperant "dirt wash" over it. Like very week water colours. Don't know how you imitate flaking paint.

Sounds like fun.

I'd burn it, wire brush it & then bleach it with oxalic acid.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I'd burn it, wire brush it & then bleach it with oxalic acid.

Sounds interesting Cliff Got any examples of what it looks like???

Originally Posted by tea lady

Maybe have a few dirty colours to randomly add to the milk paint so it doesn't look too clean. Or paint a transperant "dirt wash" over it. Like very week water colours. Don't know how you imitate flaking paint.

Sounds like fun.

I knew there'd be a use for those watercolours I bought - just in case I needed them one day

Instead of sanding back the top coat if you want it to look really old something like a crackle finish light colour over a darker undercoat often looks better than sanding.

Originally Posted by TTIT

Sounds interesting Cliff Got any examples of what it looks like???

It is a white powed & you have to mix it with water.

What you are after are techniques to 'distress' the timber.

Distressing is used in folk art painting and there are lots of how tos on the web about it. Spotlight and most craft shops will sell Jo Sonja paints which can be used for this.

If you don't want to go to all that trouble I have some rotten kauri weather boards I took off the house a few months back.

Michael

G;day TTiT, I don't know if this is the kind of weathering you are looking for,this is how I do it on a doll house,it is a paint method,A coloured base then varnish and diverent stains,

This is a little something I'm working on that may be something like you're after. The letters are cut from a pine pallet. I'm not sure of the type of pine, if it's Radiata then I think it's from an old tree. The growth rings are far closer than the normal pine you'd buy at say Bunnings. I think for scale modeling the closer the growth rings the better as wide growth rings look out of wack. I used the cheapest acrylic undercoat I could find which I found at Bunnings for about $16 for 500ml. It's made by Taubmans, called Easy Coat and apparently as it says on the can is prep, sealer primer and undercoat in one, how could you go wrong Pic one is how they start off with one coat and a light sand with 240 grit. Pic two is a sample test, the letters on the left had one coat and tumbled for an hour in a cement mixer with sand, pebbles and metal scraps. The letters on the right had two coats and tumbled as previous but for only half an hour and the bit of wood to their right is a bit of the original pallet slat. Pic three is a closeup of pic two. After a few more tests I'll probably paint two coats of overcoat which I hope will withstand a bit more bashing around than just the with the undercoat. Hope that helped
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Originally Posted by TKO

G;day TTiT, I don't know if this is the kind of weathering you are looking for,this is how I do it on a doll house,it is a paint method,A coloured base then varnish and diverent stains,

Thanks for that - looks great but I want it to look like it was actually painted once upon a time

Originally Posted by springwater

This is a little something I'm working on that may be something like you're after. ...................... After a few more tests I'll probably paint two coats of overcoat which I hope will withstand a bit more bashing around than just the with the undercoat. Hope that helped

That's pretty much what I'm after but I won't be able to bounce this around in a mixer - a bit too fragile and not a suitable shape - but it does give me some ideas.

The look I'm after could best be described as an old backyard dunny that hasn't had a coat of paint for a few too many years - nearly as much bare faded timber showing as there is crumbling paint left on it

Originally Posted by BamBam53

What you are after are techniques to 'distress' the timber.

Distressing is used in folk art painting ............

Michael

Now I at least have something to google - thanks for that (Seeing Cliff won't come good with a sample of his technique!! )

Got nothing to show you.

Try feast Watson liming solution for the pale white washed finish. Give a few coats to build the opacity so it looks like more like a paint than a stain. Then give a light sand back for the rough weathered paint finish. Top coat with a matte polyurethane oil based varnish.

Originally Posted by StuartMcC

Try feast Watson liming solution for the pale white washed finish. Give a few coats to build the opacity so it looks like more like a paint than a stain. Then give a light sand back for the rough weathered paint finish. Top coat with a matte polyurethane oil based varnish.

I like that idea too - should look OK if I dirty up the pine with some watercolours first