Portland cement scenery
The paper scenery base (above) has been painted to match the limestone color. HGTV showed how to use tissue paper (above right) to create texture on walls. This method was tried on one area of the angled slope. The tissue paper was pressed into the wet paint. Then, a coat of paint was applied over the tissue paper. The wrinkles suddenly appeared. The paint- ed tissue paper formed the wrinkles (right) as soon as the paint was applied.
Scenery for the bluffs
The area earmarked for the bluffs measured four feet long by 24 inches deep by 18 inches high. Everything was in place to scenic the area. The only question was how? We had built a hill using Howard Zane’s red rosin pa- per scenery as our first scenery at- tempt and liked it (RMC, January, 2007, RMC). This was done again to form the shape of the bluffs. We gathered every photo we could find in books, the internet and my slide col- lection to create a picture in our minds that we wanted to duplicate. Cardboard strips were hot-glued to form the basic framework. This framework was covered with red rosin paper and painted with gray latex paint. We had used Lou Sas- si’s Ground Goop (see July, 2011, page 52) for grass covered areas, but knew it wouldn’t work for a rock face. We needed something that would work like his Ground Goop but look like rock. Portland cement worked for the
piers, and concrete is just a form of rock, so I thought, “Why not just try Portland cement for the bluffs?” We mixed the cement in small batch-
es, as was done for the piers, and we added more paint to lighten the color of the mix. (The cliffs at Scotia are really light in color.) The bluffs have stria- tions running on an angle up the face, so the cement was applied following these angles. Remember the lumps? It turns out we didn’t get them all out. This was a good thing. They gave addi- tional texture to the face of the cliff.
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Pilings supporting the retaining wall were glued in place. Rosin paper, painted gray, was glued to the wall and tissue paper applied. After a second coat of gray, the retaining wall was stained with Age It Easy Gray wood stain. Next, a first coat of cement was applied on the side and above the tracks of the slope. Excess cement can be easily scraped off the wall.
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