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Quoting myself from the art threadPokeJoe posted:I found this old thermometer in my parents basement, I guess my brother got it from a house he was changing the HVAC system on. It was so rusted over you couldn't read half the numbers but I sandblasted it and it turned out pretty good considering how it started. I forgot to take a before pic like always but I painted it white like it seemed to originally be. I wanted to paint the lines and numbers black but my attempts to do it by hand looked bad given the uneven surface. I also tried masking tape to do the lines but it still looked kind of uneven. My next thought is some kind of stencil but I haven't tried it yet. Any ideas on how to have it look half decent?
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Feb 11, 2022 23:58
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i tried a roller too but as you might imagine the pitting is too extensive and it made the application uneven. A paint marker seems like an interesting idea though, I think I have an acrylic one somewhere that little blotter thing in the first video looks like it might work if I made a very small one 🤔 PokeJoe fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Feb 12, 2022 |
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Feb 12, 2022 01:50
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I ended up making a tiny blotter thing and it worked way better than any of the other methods I tried. i just took some of the end off of a cottom swab and made a little cotton pad, then folded some old t-shirt material over and rubber banded it around a dowel rod.  Not perfect but I think I can easily touch it up by hand now after it dries since I can actually see the numbers. Thanks for the video tips
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Feb 13, 2022 12:26
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the thrilling conclusion to the thermometer painting: i did a 2nd coat of the numbers by hand and decided to paint the plant flourish at the top too. Originally I did a blue flower but thought red would look better, and it matches the thermometer alcohol now. I solved the indicator line problem the easiest way possible: I'm just not gonna paint them
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Feb 26, 2022 00:45
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