2 backgrounds

[Jewyy95]

ive been working on my diy background for my beardies and i had heeps of spare foam and glue, i had o use the glue soon before it dried out so i decided to make a 2 backgrounds for my 2 ft tanks.

I am deiciding on wheter to grout these ones like my last background or to try pondite, ive seen some good jobs done with that,

While the glue was drying i took some pics, these walls were made in a matter of 45 minutes, and i think they will turn out great once grouted.

Here are some photos and leave some advice and tips on what i could do .

Cheers

 

[Trouble]

they sound good ... no photos though :?

 

[Jewyy95]

here are the two 2ft backgrounds,

and heres the other style one

 

[RamsMice]

Looks great mate can't wait to see more sorry no tips but where does every one get the foam? Lol

 

[damian83]

foam is easy to get from harvey normans or anystore like that that has packaging and uses foam, some recycle centres also have it at the tip
i even get heaps of it through the boxes of windscreens at work
ive thought about keeping it and selling it all at the goldcoast expo lol

 

[RamsMice]

Hey?? Smart idear not going to copy If I was you I would keep and sell there always people looking for it but not to dear as If I really want I can ring up wollies Harvey Norman ect coloudmt be bothered lol if there long pieces for background (flat) then a couple of chunks of foam I'm going to expo I would probley buy some if 1$ or 2 for a piece\chunk

 

[Trouble]

awesome, it looks good! thanks for sharing. I can't wait until I can start mine xD

 

[reptileKev81]

Looking good.
I plan attempting this myself very soon.
Just need to get some foam and some time, haha

Hey?? Smart idear not going to copy If I was you I would keep and sell there always people looking for it but not to dear as If I really want I can ring up wollies Harvey Norman ect coloudmt be bothered lol if there long pieces for background (flat) then a couple of chunks of foam I'm going to expo I would probley buy some if 1$ or 2 for a piece\chunk

Punctuation dude I see the words but they dont make much sense, lol, I can make out some bits, but alot of it is open to interpretation, haha

 

[Jewyy95]

thanks guys,

I got my foam from a local fruit market , they have so much its not funny.

And these were just a throw up job , ill post a thread of my main project for my beardies. Its a 4ft x2ftx2ft DIY background with a grand canyon theme. Its is taking awhile though. So much fiddling around and stuff, not like these 2 haha

I was real bored, so i just chucked on my first layer of grout . Should be another layer on by tomorrow arvo

 

[1woma]

Looking good.
I plan attempting this myself very soon.
Just need to get some foam and some time, haha



Punctuation dude I see the words but they dont make much sense, lol, I can make out some bits, but alot of it is open to interpretation, haha

LOL thats like every text message i get from my teenager LOL

 

[Scag]

Nice. Is the grout strong enough to support those shelved, im wanting to do 2 4foot high 2wide. though im worried about the strength with it being so tall.

 

[Jewyy95]

Yes In my bigger backgroun i used rock built structures for underneath gives it ectra strength and then glued and grouted, it is strong enough and with these 2 i glued and the shelves are a size that is strong not to big. If your worried about strength just add a few rocks and what not underneath to give support

 

[Naga_Kanya]

Yes In my bigger backgroun i used rock built structures for underneath gives it ectra strength and then glued and grouted, it is strong enough and with these 2 i glued and the shelves are a size that is strong not to big. If your worried about strength just add a few rocks and what not underneath to give support

I'm imagining you could also get slimline shelving brackets, and grout over them, making them invisible, but adding a bit more support.

 

[Jewyy95]

you could do that, but i though screwing them into the foam wouldnt end up to well?

 

[MSD Reptiles]

So when you say 'foam' are we taking styrofoam?

 

[Jewyy95]

So when you say 'foam' are we taking styrofoam?

Polystyrene

 

[MSD Reptiles]

Polystyrene

Thats what i meant lol

 

[Jewyy95]

Its been a while but i have finaly done my 4 layers of grout on the backgrounds.

Today i found some NON TOXIC acrylic paint and decided to give them a layer of paint.

i went over the paint with a wet brush to give it more rock like texture.

The pictures arent working but ill keep trying to get them up

Here are the backgrounds:
- The first one is a darker theme for some velvet geckoes, the first layer of paint is a brown but will be putting more colours into the background to give detail. The colours are going to be to match the lizard in a way.


Now this background is more of a sandstoney look, the effects will show more when i add detial but for a base colour it doesnt look to bad.


More photos will be posted so keep on looking out for updates

 

[xJACKx]

looking good.

 

[Jewyy95]

Got heeps more to do on them though, not even mention buying paint to do my BIG wall for my beardies, just dont know what colour i want that one :l