Continuing work on the barn doors. I brushed Testors black inside the plastic tubes as best I could. I let it dribble through from each end and soaked up the excess with a paper towel. It didn’t need to be perfect, just to hide most of the white plastic.
I then spray painted the plastic tubes and bracket hardware flat black. I stippled on dark brown to simulate aged and corroded metal. It’s a subtle finish.
I made door handles from brass tubing and sprayed those and the sewing pins with Rust-Oleum Self Etching Primer to help the paint stick better. I taped the pin heads (hahaha I said pinheads) to keep them free of paint. I then sprayed them flat black and added the stippled brown paint. The etching primer did not matter on the pins — the metal is too smooth. So, they will require touch-ups for life. =shrug=
I drilled holes through the door and glued in black brads to finish the end holes. I added aging washes to the surrounding wood and painted the brads to look like corroded metal. I installed the handles at an angle, because I liked the look of it. :] Here you can see the back of one door and the front of the other.
I drilled pilot holes in the brackets for tiny nails. I glued the brackets in place and supplemented the hold with the tiny nails. The fronts have four nails and the backs have two so they wouldn’t interfere with each other.
I used The Ultimate by Crafter’s Pick (thanks to Keli for recommending this glue for attaching metal to wood) for the brackets and dipped the nails in super glue gel.
The nail heads varied in size in the packet (noticed after they were glued in place, of course) but once painted to match they weren’t noticeable.
I will let all of this dry before installing the doors.
