Shiny Gold paint. Does anyone know where or what kind of paint works the best to simulate gold leaf or simular. Used the OneShot paints before but there has to be something we can use to paint finials,or letters without the labor intensive use of patten gold leaf. Is their a such thing on the market?. Should it be auto motive?
PREASCH!!
Posted by BrianTheBrush (Member # 1298) on :
Matthew.
There's no substitute for gold.
Now with that said..you could always sand the daylight out of the finials, use a high-built epoxy primer on them, sand 'em some more, and MAYBE get away with a gold such as House of Kolor's Solar Gold Shimrin. Then ya gotta clear that, sand it and rub it.
Don't know that that's any savings over a traditional gild.
If your customer wants Gold but does not want to spend the money, the problem is not with your pricing, it is with his budget.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
the best gold paint...SEARS... small can of ornemental gold....works the best of any. also if you clear coat it...it will last a year of so...outside.
Posted by timi NC (Member # 576) on :
I was taught early on when I started learning to gild to save my skewings(the excess gold flitters that don't stick and end up everywhere when you surface gild). These are kept in a cigar box and used to gild finials and buttons etc,.
