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Hi all,
I'm giving a makeover to my indoor pond and I'm thinking of making a mountaneous waterfall! Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated as this is my first foray into PM.
I've done up a the mold using crumpled up newspaper and chickenwire:
http://sg.f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/and … m=2d9b.jpg
I then covered up the entire structure in Aluminium foil:
http://sg.f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/and … m=8f44.jpg
So now the adventure begins! The plans are:
1. PM with wallpaper paste, probably 4-5 layers.
2. Use 2 part epoxy resin to coat 2-3 layers.
3. Paint using arts and crafts acrylic paint.
Since I've not done this before, I'm not sure if this approach is feasible. Will the structure be waterproof enough? I've read about the polyurethane, varnish, etc but I'm not sure how toxic this stuffs are, as the waterfall goes straight into my indoor pond with fishes.....
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have your thought about cement? this is my major focus at the moment: blending paper and cement. you can coat the paper with a cement render which also includes a waterproofing agent (ask at your hardware shop for that and mention its use area). You'll have to prep the cement later on to leech out the lime -- but that's pretty easy. The texture you should try is to get a Hypertufa like mix
http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/hypertufa/
Very organic that way. Similarly you coudl make the whole thing in appercrete (cement and paper) then caot with the rendering.
remmber to add a waterprrof PVA glue to the cemnt render so that it atkes to the surface below.
i hate the paper mache effect for rocks and other geological stuff -- i think it always looks like papier mache..
dave riley
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