Please forgive me for the slight posting pause, but Bagshot booking office has been fighting back. OK, it's me being clumsy really!
So keen was I to get on with the painting that I was not nearly careful enough to ensure that my brushes were good for the task. Neither did I allow sufficient time for paint to harden between coats. The end result was a wasted couple of days work and an awful mess of rubbing down and cleaning up afterwards. I felt rather disinclined to take any progress photographs!
Although I had to go to work yesterday afternoon, there was enough time to nip out and buy a decent fine brush and briefly test it too. Guess what I'll be doing all day today? Hopefully there will be some postable piccies by tonight!
Up to this point construction had been coming on quite nicely. The completion of the walls also enabled me to align and fit the door thresholds to the floor, and as the green and cream paintwork would take some time to do I felt it was opportune to finally paint the floorboards as well.
Getting a colour mixed to represent bare timber is not that easy, so there's nought better than a bit of the of the real thing to work from and here is a genuine old pine offcut especially saved and marked up for the purpose!
I was pleased to obtain a very close match, so for your interest the mix is as follows:
Humbrol Enamel,
Matt 28, "Camouflage Grey"
Matt 119, "Light Earth"
Metallic 53, "Gunmetal"
And just the tiniest smidge of matt 33, Black if required to darken here and there.
The big idea was to apply a slightly light shade overall, then wash in a thinned darker mix to fill the grain and board joints. Of course I was supposed to let the first coat dry sufficiently first wasn't I?
These next pictures show the second application after removing most of the previous mess!
It goes without saying that this lot will be fully cured before I make a fresh attempt to pick out any plank detail!