Mile End Garage.

The rest of the plasterwork has been done so now it's onto the exposed brickwork and timbers.

Hi Al,

This is looking fantastic Sir...

Andy...

 

Thanks Andy.

Lovely work Al, when you get colour on the timber it will burst into life.
BRILLIANT!

Thanks Gary.


Things might get a little tricky with the external wood work!!

Trying to decide what colour to do it. I'm leaning towards a well weathered 'grey' look. ie original woodwork not painted or treated plus many years of weather.

This is what I am favouring at the mo. What do you guys think?

Al: Of the four shades you have there I have to go along with the one you picked. The dark ones are too dark and the light one is too light. John

 

Al, I would use the light one on top.  Looks more real to me, the one you have pointed looks to bright for weathered wood.  Maybe a combo of the two would work also, put one color on and do a wash with the other. Just my 2 cents   

Untreated oak looks great as it 'silvers' Al.

Thanks John and John.

Gary, that silvered oak is just the look I'm looking for.

I painted the highlighted timber with three coats of AK Interactive Blue Filter For Panzer Grey, so now I'll try all the timbers in this wall with two coats and see how it comes out.

  

Agree w/ John.
Old bleached out silver grey. Little darker under the eaves and protected areas.

Little darker under the eaves and protected areas. wrote:

Good point Clay.

  

Happy now with the 'silvered timber' I gave the rest of the timber frame two coats of the AK Interactive Blue Filter For Panzer Grey.

It's an extremely thin wash and some 'wicked' onto the plaster work which gave some rise for concern. Needn't have worried, when it was dry, I dipped a fine brush into clean white spirit and blended it into the plasterwork, which just seems to me to add to the weathering.



Don't worry about the darker 'test' areas of timber, that's where the 'netty' is going and won't be seen.!!!

Finished the timber work.



I'm half tempted to do the panels either side of the garage doors, the panels around the corner to the left and three and a half panels on the annex, in a 'fresh' coat of paint. As if the owner were repainting!!

Interesting idea. so it would be like a work in progress.

Yup!

Hmmmmm!!!!!...... rough and ready test!

Al the wood weathering looks good    To me that metal roof on the annex doesn't look right, just throws everything off me thinks

I agree with John.
  

Thanks John.

If I go ahead with the corrugated roof, it will cover all of the roof, be laid in scale sized sheets and be weathered. Just mulling it over at the mo.

A member on another site, suggested using coloured masking tape, in some of the panels to test out the 'partly fresh painted' look. Great idea, right?

Wrong!!

Despite using low tack tape, some of the plasterwork pulled away.!!!!



Not a disaster however, as I'd planned for some signage anyway. This just pre-determines the position of one of them. They look a bit garish in the photos, but they will be 'distressed' using JohnJ's method.

That tape Faux passe, (how's that for fractured French?)  might have been a good chance to portray some  more weathered  stucco failure.
 

Good point Clay. We'll see.

It's really coming along now Al.
Not sure about the corrugated roof myself, may look better when it's weathered.
Keep up the great work.

Ditto what them guys said.