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Rusted Steel-Metal Ciaran Doyle

Manufacture/ Replication Context of Use/

Finishing Process Process Applications

Rust is the result of corroding Put a layer of grey primer down Use of design in props for a
stage or a mueseum.
Swatch particles have been exposed to I then went over it with layers To give products an old and
rst of all, as a base coat.
steel after the iron (Fe)

oxygen and moisture. of both red and yellow primer. worn down look, if that is an

Then I sanded it down so some e ect youre going for.
of the colours would

feed through.

Finish Rationale Attributes/ Materials

Description behind material Technical Specs Used

choice

The nish when a metal Metals are always Medium carbonate steel hard-

is rusted is a speccy, hard rusting, then I went ens when quenched.
nish. into looking at how “Hardenability” measures the

It isn’t a glossy or smooth nish. that can be used degree to which it can be
Usually has mainly red with and found that is it hardened in thick sections.

parts of grey coming through sometimes done on
depending on how far purpose.

along rusted it is.