"Sprayed my cloth with new artist's colours rattle cans." Topic

I use a cloth for my basic terrain layout. I like it because it makes big hills easier to do and gives a 'smooth' finish to the overall look. The problem is, my cloth is a snooker baize and it's 'pool table green'. It is also 93% Merino wool which means that it doesn't hold spray paint very well – and what it does hold rubs off over time. I must have used 20 good quality rattle cans on it over the years and up until today it has always been too green. The cloth is exceptional quality (the paint has never gone through to the reverse side) and it never holds the 'bulge' of previous hills like felt does, so I will persist with it despite the ongoing cost.

I've just used another four cans on it, but this time I think I have got the colour about right. I've also used a new brand of paint, which unlike everything I've used before comes in proper 'natural' artists colours. It is by Liquitex. It is also very low odour. Here's hoping this covering lasts.

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Colour looks good from here. Maybe a little more Earth/sand than yellow/green?

For the cost of all of those aerosols you could have bought a cheap airbrush. Fabric paint/inks and washable fixative medium.

If I'd known but, hindsight is a wonderful thing. I actually have access to an 'industrial' wall sprayer and compressor – I should have invested in the fabric paint and used that. I was put off by never having used one.

That looks very good to me. Nice work, sir!

Shawn.

That looks great. I know here in the states at Joann fabrics they sell spray paint made for fabrics. I havew never tried it though, so not sure how well it works. Your colors look very natural now. Well done.

I might be missing the joke but,

The square is a small part of an off cut. The cloth was well over 20 feet long when I got it. My table is only 15 foot long. I cut the cloth to 16 foot long to save paint. The cloth was too long because that is how it came from the mill as a faulty bolt. It was free (through a contact), so I wasn't going to look that particular gift horse in the mouth – it's worth several hundreds of pounds.

Sorry but what on earth is a rattle can?

@JasonAfrika

A can of spraypaint. The agitator rattles when you shake it up.

The difference in Before and After coloring is amazing. I think that you did a good job with the paint cans.

Looks good. Snooker baize is superb quality, probably the overall effect of the 20 cans does actually help with the diffused look, even though most is lost, some must stay and add something to the pot.

Acrylic inks / paint were originally designed for fabrics as they can actually penetrate the cloth fibres and inpregnate them with colour, giving some permanence ……. I tested this last week when I dropped a pot of brown paint on the floor ( read carpet) and some splashed up onto my trousers. Washing did not help the trousers, so they are in the bin. The carpet …… Well!

Out of curiosity I 'googled' snooker table baize.

The most expensive I saw was a little over GBP600 for enough to cover a single full sized table; this was championship standards. Prices started at around GBP120 per table sized piece of cloth.

Olicana looks to have enough to cover two tables.

Yep, it's a Hainsworth Match Championship, which is used on tables for high level professional matches. I managed to get this faulty length (I have never found the fault) directly from the mill through a friend, gratis, to do a demo game a few years ago. It is worth an awful lot of money.