My Vivarium Background

[spankyg]

Wow, thanks for the detailed explanation.

I was thinking of drawing out an image and just using a heat gun to carve straight into it.
What you’ve done seems much more meticulous and thorough (and works) lol.

Mixing the acrylic paint in with the cement is a great idea. I hope you don’t mind if I steal this idea haha, (don’t worry, I’ll create something different), but yeah, love the idea. I rekon you could really create some good looking stuff if you spent some crazy time on it… It reminded me of this artist who uses cork to create models of ancient architecture (like the Acropolis in Athens etc.) lol, I’ll have to find his name, but yeah. You’ve got my creative juices flowing hah

[Animalnstinct]

No problem

Yeah I'm actually thinking of getting one of those floral foam heat cutters next time I make it out of town. I'm thinking it would make things a lot quicker and smoother.

Thought I would share an update of what I have so far. I think I have about 4-5 coats on so far and I sanded it a bit down today and you can see the different colors starting to show. I'm going to still add probably at least 2-3 more coats as when I started to sand a few of the edges chipped off a bit.

Once I finish coating everything I'm going to go in and clean up things and then stain it a little bit. When it's stained and ready to go I'm going to go in and probably add vines and moss to it.