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Hi everyone,

Has anyone ever used emulsion paint on mouldings and what finish did they use? have tried with polish without much success, also tried searching on the forum, the reason is I have a certain colour of blue requested.

Lok forward to hearing from anyone

I use Crown Trade Silk Vinyl when painting slips.

Hi silvercleave.

Are you painting on bare wood or modding a finished moulding? For bare wood, artists acrylic is better than emulsion. It dries harder so takes a nice polish. Mixing the right shade can be tricky as it tends to darken when dry.

any decent quality paint with a lot of pigment is great. One of our suppliers finishes one of their ranges of mouldings with farrow and ball paints, we tend to get them mixed in the dulux machine at B&Q, and have found this is the only way to get a decent black, but plenty of others are fine out of sample pots , and its an absolute bargain way of "having a go" and getting a whole wall full of interesting sample chevrons from a couple of sticks of plain wood mouldings.

we've been painting stuff for fifteen years ... although it seems longer. Mostly white as thats the "local" thing.

Paint pads seem to work very well for applying paints.

I did see a youtube video in which an artist pretty much declared acrylic paint is all rather much the same stuff, just watered down more in some tins than others. So prosperos tip about artists acrylic seems right, the thicker the better (?)

we rarely finde any use for primers on most bare woods.

kev@frames wrote:Paint pads seem to work very well for applying paints.

I quite like using torn up washing up sponges (not smooth ones, the more swiss cheese like, the better) to dab paint on with - they get into all the corners and leave a nice mottled texture, which itself can be used as a base for other more interesting finishes.

We polish over emulsion quite often with no problems. We found the best way is to use several thin coats and rub down with fine paper in between to build the colour up, rather than a couple of thick coats.

couple of good tips there chaps ^^^^^

i'll give that a go.

Very many thanks for all that, never learnt so much in so few posts!!

Ian

I've been using Emulsion paint from Dulux, as we have a local shop in town that mix's it.
I always finish it off with a coat of Glaze, from Rose & Hollis, gives a nice matt finish.
Makes it feel nice but thats my hang up!

Artman wrote: Glaze, from Rose & Hollis,

Do they have a web site?

No website as far as I know... and no e-mail.

They are on the new fangled electric telephone though.

020 7272 5551

and the even more state-of-the-art facimile gizmo:

020 7281 5750

Here's a great tip for painting with emulsion.

Never wipe excess paint of the brush on the side of the paint tin after dipping. The paint that is left under the rim hardens and drops into the paint causing it to become lumpy and almost impossible to use.

We buy emulsion in 5 litre cans, and using this method the paint remains smooth and particle free to the last drop, even with intermittent use.