chunkolini
celebrity artiste
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- Swansea
I was asked to make a screen to go on a wall in a soon to be opened space.
They wanted something reflecting the local landscape in the style of my large outdoor screens. 2mx0.9m.
Initial plan was for polished and lacquered steel.
First sketch on my new blackboard.
Why in hell has it taken me so long to make a proper blackboard for this kind of thing? Idiot.
Customer liked it.
Bent the lines up and fitted them in the frame, frame is 25x5mm angle iron, hills are mix of 30,25 and 15mm mild steel cleaned in a Citric acid bath.
Then cut out the trees, oh joy. Plasma cutting used to be great fun.
Then they changed their mind and wanted it rusted and lacquered.
Scrubbed it with Ammonium Chloride, three hours later.
Promising. Got called away on family business for a couple of days, while away the delivery date got bought forwards.
I had to get my finger out. Five days after the chloride went on I was varnishing it. These photos are not too good, overhead projector is a vicious floodlight.
Detail shot.
Whole caboodle.
Looks ok to me.
The screen will be mounted proud of the wall on legs 50mm long to allow for the shadows to work.
Packed it off today, fingers crossed.
Really the timescale was daft, rusting is a process that takes time, it can be speeded up a bit but this was pushing it. One of the clouds promptly spat off the rust when I picked it up, I ended up collecting all the rust dust from rubbing it down and mixing it with the varnish to make a rusty paint.
Arrrrrgh.
They wanted something reflecting the local landscape in the style of my large outdoor screens. 2mx0.9m.
Initial plan was for polished and lacquered steel.
First sketch on my new blackboard.
Why in hell has it taken me so long to make a proper blackboard for this kind of thing? Idiot.
Customer liked it.
Bent the lines up and fitted them in the frame, frame is 25x5mm angle iron, hills are mix of 30,25 and 15mm mild steel cleaned in a Citric acid bath.
Then cut out the trees, oh joy. Plasma cutting used to be great fun.
Then they changed their mind and wanted it rusted and lacquered.
Scrubbed it with Ammonium Chloride, three hours later.
Promising. Got called away on family business for a couple of days, while away the delivery date got bought forwards.
I had to get my finger out. Five days after the chloride went on I was varnishing it. These photos are not too good, overhead projector is a vicious floodlight.
Detail shot.
Whole caboodle.
Looks ok to me.
The screen will be mounted proud of the wall on legs 50mm long to allow for the shadows to work.
Packed it off today, fingers crossed.
Really the timescale was daft, rusting is a process that takes time, it can be speeded up a bit but this was pushing it. One of the clouds promptly spat off the rust when I picked it up, I ended up collecting all the rust dust from rubbing it down and mixing it with the varnish to make a rusty paint.
Arrrrrgh.
