07-21-2009, 07:44 AM
I'm back with an update, weather has been too sweet to stay in the basement, so it took a week to get what you'll see done. I laminated the Holgate and Reynolds material to the plywood. After priming with red primer, I applied orange chalk, not the atists pastel type, but rather the ones seemingly made for our hobby, I can't remember the brand name. Past experience had shown me that this type had an adhesive of some type, as it will not wipe off like the pastels do, so no need for protective coating (dull cote) which always greatly reduced the effect of the pastels. Well, since I wanted to then apply spackle for mortor, I thought I should seal the chalk anyway. Guess what? Dull Cote rmoves much of this chalk as well! So I reapplied the chalk and then applied the spackle. The result was interesting but not very visable in the photos. The spackle lifted some of the chalk, which turned the spackle orange. As I rubbed it off the brick face, the brick face was more red than orange, but the mortor was orange/white. I like the look well enough to keep, but in the future I will apply a more orange color to the wall after priming and before dusting and spackling. Here are the basement walls in place, just needing ground cover to meet the bottom edges, ready for construction of the main floors.
