Royal Doulton Dog on M's desk

HalfMonk HalfHitman

I'd love for one of the artistes in here to weigh in on how to best distress the RD to make it more screen accurate. The color especially.

Martin Aston

With a hammer and a pot of glue )

Thunderpussy

) I know nothing about distressing doulton but in the days of printing photos, we
Used to stain photographs with tea/coffee to make a print look " aged". if you
Can get a water based varnish, and an oil based varnish, one coat over the other.
As they dry at different speeds, you would get a heavily " cracked" appearance. Some
Use that technique to make furniture look distressed. So perhaps a combination of the
Two might make it look " distressed ".
Once again please understand I know nothing about memorabilia, or model making.

minigeff

It is possible to have a cracked appearance, but I'd class it as specialist work. Not for the faint hearted and needs an experienced hand.

I've seen people here have this done, but probably wouldn't consider doing it to mine.

The Red Kind

Thunderpussy wrote:

) I know nothing about distressing doulton but in the days of printing photos, we
Used to stain photographs with tea/coffee to make a print look " aged". if you
Can get a water based varnish, and an oil based varnish, one coat over the other.
As they dry at different speeds, you would get a heavily " cracked" appearance. Some
Use that technique to make furniture look distressed. So perhaps a combination of the
Two might make it look " distressed ".
Once again please understand I know nothing about memorabilia, or model making.

"distressing doulton" sounds like a subject for Higgins..?

Thunderpussy

) He'd get misty eyed, just thinking about it.