Well I hate not having my dig camera around when we are xperimenting around here!
Went to the fabric store bought a piece of foam padding, more or less what is in your sofa cushions.
Went to Advance auto, bought fiberglass auto/boat repairkit, and a couple extra sheets of matting.
Went and got a garbage bag & razor blade then I sat down with the foam cushion in hand....
I measured and cut out a section where my overflow would be at on the backglass.
I then began picking out chunks of foam cushion randomly sized and some deeper than others etc.... Did this for about 1 hour and I now had a piece of foam with what looked like ledges and caves, etc picked into the foam. Now I have a mold for my Back drop!
I then took the fiberglass matting and a pair of sciccors... I cut up alot of matting to small slivers, squares, etc... I left a cpl sheets uncut though for later.
I pulled out a cheapo paint brush after getting it l lmixed up and begin to paint the foam I just dug into earlier, and then placing the small cut up pieces of matting into the resin & applied more resin. I did this over and over until I had a thin layer of matting in place and I let it dry.
Doing it like this makes it easier to work with the matting and get the crinkled/textured appearance you want, whereas a single large sheet does not crinkle up as nicely imo.
I came back the next day and put a liberal coating of resin over the matting and let it dry.
Then came back the 3rd day and put more resin down and then a large piece of matte to start re-enforcing my structure, and then more resin.
Repeat last step again on 4th day.
I pulled it of the foam the other day and I must say its pretty impressive looking, and I plan on putting one more matting/resin on the backside then....
I planned on painting it in marine epoxy but adding a twist to the paint...
Ever seen textured paint in a home? Its simply paint with different sized sand in it!
I will wrap the project up with a cpl layers of darkgrey/brown mixed up with aragonite mixed into the paint to add the texture and not be as smooth looking.
Now if my brother in law would return my dig camera I could of been documenting this in pictures!
Went to the fabric store bought a piece of foam padding, more or less what is in your sofa cushions.
Went to Advance auto, bought fiberglass auto/boat repairkit, and a couple extra sheets of matting.
Went and got a garbage bag & razor blade then I sat down with the foam cushion in hand....
I measured and cut out a section where my overflow would be at on the backglass.
I then began picking out chunks of foam cushion randomly sized and some deeper than others etc.... Did this for about 1 hour and I now had a piece of foam with what looked like ledges and caves, etc picked into the foam. Now I have a mold for my Back drop!
I then took the fiberglass matting and a pair of sciccors... I cut up alot of matting to small slivers, squares, etc... I left a cpl sheets uncut though for later.
I pulled out a cheapo paint brush after getting it l lmixed up and begin to paint the foam I just dug into earlier, and then placing the small cut up pieces of matting into the resin & applied more resin. I did this over and over until I had a thin layer of matting in place and I let it dry.
Doing it like this makes it easier to work with the matting and get the crinkled/textured appearance you want, whereas a single large sheet does not crinkle up as nicely imo.
I came back the next day and put a liberal coating of resin over the matting and let it dry.
Then came back the 3rd day and put more resin down and then a large piece of matte to start re-enforcing my structure, and then more resin.
Repeat last step again on 4th day.
I pulled it of the foam the other day and I must say its pretty impressive looking, and I plan on putting one more matting/resin on the backside then....
I planned on painting it in marine epoxy but adding a twist to the paint...
Ever seen textured paint in a home? Its simply paint with different sized sand in it!
I will wrap the project up with a cpl layers of darkgrey/brown mixed up with aragonite mixed into the paint to add the texture and not be as smooth looking.
Now if my brother in law would return my dig camera I could of been documenting this in pictures!
Your setup is really coming together nicely sunny.
