TRADITIONAL 🅵🅾🅾🅻🅸🅶🅰🅽 - 1930s Elgin Oriole - 2nd Place (Tie) - BUILD JOURNAL

[kingfish254]

The paint doesn't need to be dry before you spray off the mustard. I usually do it within minutes.

Took your advice and hosed off the mustard.
The paint didn't turn pink. That's just the way the camera is handling the low lighting levels in the photo.

 

[ingola]

Then I did a heavy dusting with the super cheap flat black. I think this toned it down even better to look good with the frame background.
I also took advantage of not currently having a carriage house tenant and used their laundry closet to hang the parts to dry.

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What previous tenant not like that

How do you see the view count?

On a phone switch to desktop mode

 

[MattiThundrrr]

How do you see the view count?

Kingfish posts them:

It gets kinda crazy sometimes. 44 pages, 31,000 views, and 880 posts.

I am on a smart phone, not smrt enuf to find it myself

 

[kingfish254]

Pretty good color match in regular daylight.

 

[kingfish254]

Pretty happy with the pattern match too for my second pass with the mustard

 

[OddJob]

YES ! to all of the above ^^ ! And now....

RaT oN~!

 

[marshall hudson]

YES ! to all of the above ^^ ! And now....

RaT oN~!

Looking good. Some dead flat clear would knock the shine down if you're going for that look. Color match looks good.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Good start! Now go get some ochre acrylic paint, thin it down, apply it all over, and rub most of it back off after it dries a little. Leave just enough so that it softens the edges (look at the edges on the frame paint/metal).

 

[kingfish254]

Next step after input from @OddJob was cooking with vinegar. Blending the transitions with 0000 steel wool and 50/50 white vinegar and water.

 

[kingfish254]

I wasn't expecting the red bleed through in the underpaint areas, but they work great. I think this is because of the first failed mustard test that I painted over with new underpaint colors. Of course now, I need to paint the other fork pieces red and followed by the Satin Espresso and black dusting in order to get the same effect on those parts.

The steel wool also knocked the sheen down for a better match.

Good start! Now go get some ochre acrylic paint, thin it down, apply it all over, and rub most of it back off after it dries a little. Leave just enough so that it softens the edges (look at the edges on the frame paint/metal).

Thanks for the tip, I'll pick up some of that later. The vinegar steel wool above blended and muted a lot, but I may still want to darken and add more variations

Looking good. Some dead flat clear would knock the shine down if you're going for that look. Color match looks good.

Thanks, the vinegar wool scrub took care of the sheen

YES ! to all of the above ^^ ! And now....

RaT oN~!

Thanks for the help brother. I'm happy with the results

 

[kingfish254]

New red undercoat for other parts
Then I'm off to get the ochre paint TRM suggested

 

[kingfish254]

Tested the fork piece. This is gonna tie in well if I can get the same results with the other parts

 

[OddJob]

Colors of the earth; make good RaT-ina sauce.

Ochre, Sienna, Umber. @The Renaissance Man ... he knows.

 

[RustySprockets]

I wonder if dabbing on the mustard with crumpled foil or wax paper, rather than a brush, would allow for a more ragged, natural transition.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

I wonder if dabbing on the mustard with crumpled foil or wax paper, rather than a brush, would allow for a more ragged, natural transition.

Crumpled foil sounds like a great idea. I had also suggested a stiff scrub brush.

The process can be deceiving at times. It can look ragged but even a thin layer will block the top coat of paint. That was actually one of the reasons that I initially thought of mustard, I thought that the yellow color would help to see the application. The other reason was that it is not oily and is very easy to rinse away with just water. I had also thought about trying tempera paint instead of mustard but haven't taken the time to test it yet. It would probably take more effort to remove but who knows? Maybe some of you ratters can test that sometime and start a thread to share insights and tips!

 

[kingfish254]

Got back home and laid down the matte Espresso and flat black underpaint over the colonial Red

 

[kingfish254]

Picked up some different mustard tools including some crumbled up tin foil

 

[kingfish254]

Got the mustard on just in time before a shower is rolling in. Going to have to wait for it to pass before paint

 

[kingfish254]

The scrub brush was the best. Then I used the stiffer chunky brush fir enhancements here and there. The tin foil was okay, but not great. The sculpting tools weren't any good. Used a little pointed paper towel to remove some from the center of globs to try to lean good enough for some red in the center of some mustard areas. We'll see how it turns out once the rain passes.
With this heat, the laundry closet is starting to smell like a hot dog.

 

[Captain Awesome]

I like natural sponge and steel wool. Between the two can make most textures

And then after you can use the steel wool to take edges down