marsh28 Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Here's a rather poor quality pic of a section of fencing I've made for my Halloween display. I started making the fences in early February and just finished!?! Attached files
DownTown Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Wow, that's really nice . How did you make them?D.T.
marsh28 Posted September 23, 2011 Author Posted September 23, 2011 The horizontal parts are 2 inch furring strips. The vertical "bars" are 1/2 inch PVC pipe cut to length. The finials are plastic deals I got no the internet cheap.As for painting, well that was the difficult part. I first applied a light layer of cement/joint compound to get the rough effect you see on things that have been allowed to rust. After this dried, I took a sponge and applied orange paint. While still wet, I then sprayed a watery mixture of brown paint on the fence. Finally, I took a brush applied dark mahogany wood stain. The worst step was the wood stain as it smells horrible and is oil-based. The stain also takes almost 4 days to dry. Still, the end result is a pretty convicning rusting effect.BTW, I didn't come up with this technique (I'm not that clever) and instead got it from a Halloween blog.
paulanator Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Boy that is a super effect and it looks really old and rusty.
Guest guest Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 Looks really great! Just like a real wrought iron fence. Vey nice job on creating the effect.
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