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30: How not to do it: what’s wrong with this picture?
It shows how I did my usual Dullcote of the siding,
then used alcohol to fade the Dullcote. While the
look of it was actually pretty good, I hadn’t counted
on the alcohol completely dissolving the adhesive of
the tape holding the siding in place! To say that I was
not pleased is an understatement. This building sat
for several days while I was in denial about the whole
thing. Eventually I removed all of the siding and started
over from scratch.
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31: This is more like it! After again consulting with
Scott Mason, I decided to spray paint all the Campbell
siding primer gray, let it dry for a day, then baked it
in a low heat oven for half an hour to further solidify
the coating. Dullcote and alcohol fading were applied
to the sheets, and only then did I cut them into strips
for application. This is the right way to do it. Live and
learn! While I’m accomplished with many materials, it
was actually my first time using a lot of this metal sid-
ing material.
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