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Need help. I'm having problems painting brick
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"This sounds simple, but I think the results look realistic. Spray paint the brick surface with a coat of red-oxide auto primer. This dries very quickly. After the primer dries, brush on a mixture of (1 part antique white flat latex paint, 9 parts of water, and a few drops of dish washing liquid) to the brick surface and allow to dry. This works best if the brick surface is laying flat. The white paint mixture fills in the spaces between the brick but runs off the brick. This is similar to the method described by Sassi in his scenery books." <br /> <br />I can vouch for this....I have been using the red oxide auto primer spray paint for over 20 years! In addition to regular house paint, I have also used artists white acrylic 'tube paint' dilited with both water and a retarder to make it dry very slowly, so I have plenty of time to rub it off to suit my taste. I'll also mix in a spot of black and dark blue and burnt unber TINY spots...to tone down the white to a dirty light grey. After the morter dries I usually weather the buildings with thin washes of grimey 'stain' of highly dilute latex thinned with alcaho or with a dusting of chalk powders. Jenniferl
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