Posts: 14 Location: Brisbane, Australia
Sun 03 Jul, 2011 10:33 pm
Long time reader (well not as long as some), first time poster and I must say the
shields here have been an inspiration, so have many of the subjects, posts and of course astounding knowledge of some people!
This is my recently finished large heater shield, I did cheat a bit and purchased the pre-curved and cut blank from a local company.
The rear is two layers of canvas painted white, the front is three layers of canvas, the sides have a total of four layers (first back layer and the three fronts all curve over. The front has three coats of white ceiling paint (my poor mans gesso), which was sanded down slightly, then covered with the colours you see in artists acrylic, all by hand and brush. And then sealed with a matte artists sealer from a can...
Rivets are brass, they started life as threaded rod which was filed down and then peened over to make the heads, this was done front and rear. Enarmes and guige is inch width belt leather, doubled up at the rivet points and the rivet heads supported by brass washers.
I know not too historically accurate using brass or round washers.
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Thanks for looking,
Brett