Guildhall Museum - Time to cover the stones and Maidstone Studios - "Teach 'em a lesson&quo

Guildhall Museum - Kits Coty Project

We started covering all the surfaces in Styroputz.

Styroputz is a highly viscous paste based on a synthetic resin dispersion and coarse-grained marble sand. With Styroputz high build; good retentive coatings are manufactured in polystyrene and other surfaces. This area appears optically as plaster and is flame retardant.

(http://www.ahaussmann.com/produktkatalog/kaschiermasse-giessmassen/styroputz//)

For the first part of the day I, also, spent time with James Rouse the scenic painter, mixing paint and testing it on pre-prepared surfaces of Styroputz. This was to practice what the final paint effects would be on the finished 'stone slabs'.

Initially we tried applying it with the stones upright. What a disaster! It just fell off. We had to take the stones apart again and lay them all down to do this. Styroputz needed a good mix before you started and then we applied it 3mm thick, avoiding the bolt holes.

It was applied with a scraper and then when it was all on and slightly drier we gave it a light brush all over with a paint brush to smooth it out. This gave a really great finish.