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When the posters arrive, lay them on a flat surface and place your plywood sheets on top of the unfolded posters, as laying some
weight on the plywood will help flatten the posters out a bit -- a few wrinkles is normal.Before you begin to glue your posters to your wood, and this is VERY important, make sure that you have coated the wood with a primer or glue FIRST!
If the wood is not sealed well with something before you begin gluing the posters to the wood, the posters will wrinkle up as the wood absorbs the glue and you do not want a "crinkled" poster. Once the wood is sealed, you begin to glue the posters to wood. You may need to thin the glue
with a bit of water in order to get a good spread. You should use a water-based or resin-based glue and regular old yellow, out of doors wood glue works quite well. Put some glue on the wood as well as on the posters, then stick them together. Have a damp cloth handy to smooth the posters out with --
some
wrinkles in the posters are to be expected, but these can be solved by slitting them with a razor blade and overlapping the cut edges to avoid air bubbles.Once the posters are glued down, wait 24 hours , then begin to cut out the figures using a hand-held jig saw. Just cut around the lines of the pre-painted characters. The saw will cut right through the paper
and the wood. You'll need to go back over the newly exposed edge wood with primer. Next is the weather coating. You want to
use a water based polyeurethane or other clear
sealer. Regardless of which brand or type of sealer you choose, you'll want to test it on a small portion of just one character before applying it to the entire poster set -- this is a good idea because some
weather coats will turn the posters green or yellow. A slight haze is pretty much unavoidable if you choose to use sealer, but it's not noticeable from afar. The weather coating is not 100% necessary, as the
paper itself is resistant to weather. . .but we think it is very advisable and will prolong the life of your posters at the cost of a barely noticeable haze.After you've put on at least two coats of weather coating,
it's time to mount your characters to the earth. We're not going to go into this in detail, as there are so many methods of doing this it's unreal. You can do metal rods driven into the ground, wooden stands
mounted to the back of the characters, wooden platforms that the characters adhere to. . .the list goes on. Take a trip to the hardware store and use your imagination to solve this issue. Poster projects are fun
to do, relatively painless, and they make a great display that you can be proud of showing your family! |
