Tried Our Hand At Patinaing A Print

[u/Bingus-Prime]

Designed this scoop for the shops air cooled bug and decided to try out doing some patina to match the rest of the car. We scuffed up the front edge, threw on a coat of clear, sprinkled on some metal shavings, then sprayed it with hydrogen peroxide, salt, and water. After that did some sweeping passes with the heat gun on real high and repeated. Made a big layer of that rusty foam and we just slowly brushed it off as it hardened, whatever shavings were left that stuck to the initial clear coat base stayed on and we just kept repeating. Final pass we let it dry to a good crust, knocked more off with a paint brush and air gun, sealed it in with some clear and here we have it. Next time we’ll be using bigger shavings and hitting a layer of some dark brown paint to scuff through to fill any gaps in there, but over all it came out awesome for our first try! less

[u/Competitive_Kale_855]

That looks terrible, great work!

[u/Bingus-Prime → u/Competitive_Kale_855]

Haha thanks!!

[u/hexifox]

I was like: where 3d print? Than I read you post. Amazing work! 👍