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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 187940, member: 78"]Hi,</p><p> It is just copper colored car paint. It is not a self portrait but of what I find Roman and Greek heads to look like. It is made of molded clay with a fiberglass finish. I used fiberglass boat paint to cover the clay. Unfortunately the fiberglass bubbled and left tiny crevices all over. I was going to give it a weathered limestone finish but I decided to give it a dark bronze finish with a copper color showing where it was rubbed. Over time it just stayed copper. I wanted to bronze it and place it on a stone base. Will I ever finish it???? Time will tell. I used to take plaster statues and bronze them to make lamps. One guy used to buy all the ones I did. I do not know what he did with them but he used to pay me a good price. They used to run me about 12 to 15 dollars and then 2 bucks of paint and an hour of my time. He used pay me 100 bucks apiece.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 187940, member: 78"]Hi, It is just copper colored car paint. It is not a self portrait but of what I find Roman and Greek heads to look like. It is made of molded clay with a fiberglass finish. I used fiberglass boat paint to cover the clay. Unfortunately the fiberglass bubbled and left tiny crevices all over. I was going to give it a weathered limestone finish but I decided to give it a dark bronze finish with a copper color showing where it was rubbed. Over time it just stayed copper. I wanted to bronze it and place it on a stone base. Will I ever finish it???? Time will tell. I used to take plaster statues and bronze them to make lamps. One guy used to buy all the ones I did. I do not know what he did with them but he used to pay me a good price. They used to run me about 12 to 15 dollars and then 2 bucks of paint and an hour of my time. He used pay me 100 bucks apiece. greg[/QUOTE]
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