Hi,
After looking through tons of the fantastic DIY backgrounds on this site, I decided to try my hand at a background for my 55 gallon. I'm going for a more "muddy" look, not stone or rock.
I decided to use floral styrofoam, bought in small sections so that I can work out the detail and also because my mind can more easily comprehend a creative project using smaller scales and then putting them together.
Below is a picture of my first section, comprised of 3 floral rectangular blocks and 3 smaller square blocks. This picture shows my cut outs:
The next picture is the same piece after using the Bernzomatic and applying a watery base layer of Quickrete with terra cotta color. I then added a second, thicker coat of terracotta and then a third coat of the same mixture with "buff" coloring added in order to bring dimension to the piece (at least, I hope that's what it did!).
This is where I am in my project. I will continue to update as I progress and would love any feedback or suggests to help me along.
Thanks!
P.S.
I just realized that my pictures will not embed, does anyone know what I'm doing wrong??
After looking through tons of the fantastic DIY backgrounds on this site, I decided to try my hand at a background for my 55 gallon. I'm going for a more "muddy" look, not stone or rock.
I decided to use floral styrofoam, bought in small sections so that I can work out the detail and also because my mind can more easily comprehend a creative project using smaller scales and then putting them together.
Below is a picture of my first section, comprised of 3 floral rectangular blocks and 3 smaller square blocks. This picture shows my cut outs:
The next picture is the same piece after using the Bernzomatic and applying a watery base layer of Quickrete with terra cotta color. I then added a second, thicker coat of terracotta and then a third coat of the same mixture with "buff" coloring added in order to bring dimension to the piece (at least, I hope that's what it did!).
This is where I am in my project. I will continue to update as I progress and would love any feedback or suggests to help me along.
Thanks!
P.S.
I just realized that my pictures will not embed, does anyone know what I'm doing wrong??