aNtistic design

Step 12 Painting part 2

One more way I decided to try to and keep the inner frame work from distracting from the ants tunnels was by painting it a flat black .the angle iron had been outside for who knows how long and was looking pretty rough with pot holes from rust I wanted a smooth finish ,and had tried my hand with bondo before ,only to have mixed results .then I tried regular elmer's wood filler (turns out that it works on metal too) .once all the holes and imperfections were filled and then sanded smooth .I sprayed on the flat black paint only to find out that the wood filler soaked it up leaving a splotchy look .to combat that I sprayed some KILZ original spray paint on as my priming coat .it not only blocked the filler from soaking up the flat black paint .more over it smoothed the tiny imperfections the wood filler couldn't .once I painted the entire thing with the KILZ and lightly sanded it .I sprayed on the finishing coat of flat black in thin coats to make sure for a nice smooth even finish