Octopush Bats - Photo
Posted on 15/09/07 01:33
As promised, here's a photo of the octopush bats, taken in the garage whilst the final coat of paint is drying. It's not the most fantastic of photos for so many reasons, but it should give some idea of what I've spent the last couple of weekends doing. I'll try and do something more "arty" when I have time (2008, perhaps?).
One point worth briefly discussing is what paint to use. There was a suggestion about using fence stain because being a stain, it colours the wood, so doesn't wear/rub off - hence bats wouldn't need repainting. However, we knocked this in the head on the grounds that staining wood (which is generally coloured already) isn't really possible. So I was quite surprised to find Cuprinol do in fact to a white fence stain. Except it's not really, it's just an exterior white paint. Still, I figured it was worth a go, and initial results looked quite good - the texture and feel of the wood was still there (something you can loose with proper paint) and the bat's were white. At least, they were until we started using them. The stain/paint rubs off very easily, and at the end of last weeks session, the black bats (painted in matt black enamel - B&Q didn't have the Cuprinol Black Ash) looked in good condition, and the white bats looked completely battered. So they're now hanging up in the garage again, having been repainted in Humbrol's finest matt white enamel. (Which is much nicer to use than the fast-drying enamel B&Q sell. Almost makes me want to go and buy some Airfix models...)
