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You know, the pieces that didn't turn out as you'd hoped. The horse that mysteriously turned into the World's Ugliest Hippo. These things happen.
But some of them were not made in vain: they can be used as...... [drum roll]...... canvases for surface design trials, surfaces to experiment with how colors absorb or blend (or don't), to see how that new paint/stain/sealer works, to see if rivets/screws & bolts/wire can be used on that thickness of PM, how well it takes the drilling of a hole, how much pressure (set on floor, apply foot) five layers of overlapped newspaper strips can take :twisted: versus 100% cotton resume paper/tissue paper/vellum/paper towels, etc.
Why try something that might not work on your perfect, gessoed, sanded and primered work of art? Try it on your stupid-looking hippo-horse first. He won't mind if he turns out looking like some kind of weird Applaloosa.... Well, not very much, anyway.
You can always burn him later, or bury him at the bottom of the garbage can. (Don't ask about the cat's head that turned up on the handlebars of a kid from down the street.... :oops: )
Sue
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Geeze you'd love this house. heh During our little learning adventure (still ongoing) we created a lot of failures. We became tired of pieces being wrecked, usually by applying paint or a seal though some are from bad paste mixes so stopped making projects. The least few weeks we're only making boards. Card board squares or strips covered in PM. A few twisted and bent ones for testing. We make a few each day, using them to test out techniques, seals, formulas, various brands and types of paints.
Sad thing is there are more failures than successes. Actually, there are no successes so far if you don't count the cornering we've done on earlier box like projects. 
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What country are you in?
What kind of adhesives have you been using?
Sue
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We've used: flour/water, wheatflour/flour/water, pva(elmer's)/water, flour/pva/water. We've tried it thin, thick, and gel like. Even with various sealants, things still warp into total wreckage if we try to paint them. 
Haven't touched the wallpaper mix stuff, still trying to avoid that.
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Thanks Sue.
I use pasted boards for testing, did'nt think of resurrecting the Frankenstein's from the recycling bag. However the cat will not be happy he likes my bowl rejects i put his biscuits in them (he likes to pitstop in the workroom before going down stairs) 
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Don't be afraid of the methyl cellulose-based kind of wallpaper paste. It's just made from wood pulp. Of the three kinds of wallpaper paste, it's the best. Try Golden Harvest Cellulose Wallpaper Paste, specifically, about $6.
Sue
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