painting carpet?

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Topic: painting carpet?

Posted By: crudeau
Subject: painting carpet?
Date Posted: October 16, 2003 at 11:30 AM

This isn't really the right forum but I didn't think it fit in the audio forum...

I made one of these minus the horse..

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My question is, how do I paint on it? I can't get the horse piece to come out right. So I figure I will make to running ponies on both sides and paint them with white paint. Is this as simple as making a masking tape stencil and spray painting it or is there a special process and paint involved?

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Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: October 16, 2003 at 2:48 PM

If your using carpet as your foundation for the project and you want to paint over it, you would most like have to fiberglass it. Painting carpet will just make a mess of the whole thing.

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA

Posted By: soup
Date Posted: October 17, 2003 at 3:48 AM

You can paint the carpet with carpet paint, but it just lightly dyes the carpet, and it doesnt really last that long. If you were to use a stencil and paint over the carpet even with carpet paint, it would look blurry around the edges, and might look somewhate decent for a few months, then fade in some parts and look like crap.

If you used normal paint, a latex base or acrylic base, I am pretty sure it would just clump on the carpet and look like crap. Even doing silk screening would look pretty crappy. You are better off just using a different color of carpet. Use a skill saw, and cut out a horse, then wrap carpet around it. If you cant get the carpet around it properly, then take it to get professionaly done.

Posted By: crudeau
Date Posted: October 17, 2003 at 6:58 AM

cool thanks guys, but I came up with an idea. I am going to cut out the horse and then get that trunk paint, that stuff that is like 3 different colors, white black and gray. And paint the horse. That way I don't mess with carpet and the paint will stick to the wood. I may even just use plastic instead of wood.