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   Gretchen | Sep 20, 2008 03:39pm | #1

   If I am interpreting your "schedule" correctly you will have a white barn and then want it to be red with some of the white showing through. If that is what you want you can put vaseline on the barn before you paint it red. Those areas will stay white and then you wipe it off.

   Gretchen
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   SteveSchoene | Sep 20, 2008 05:47pm | #2

   For an old barn look, I would skip the primer and use milk paint, which comes in the barn red color.  Now I am talking about actual milk paint, the kind you mix from powders.  Extremely durable, yet if you don't top coat it it will pick up some water spots and mottling that will give an old look very quickly.  Milk paint works best over bare wood--if you prime it first you will have to add an acyrlic additive for adhesion, making it more like acyrlic paint than milk paint. 

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   forestgirl | Sep 21, 2008 07:14am | #3

   Milk paint would look great, here's the link to the best stuff:
   http://www.milkpaint.com/

   I would not prime with white, because when you distress that white would show through.  You could probably call the folk at OFMP to get some ideas, or with luck, Gretchen will show up here, she usually has some good tips.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   
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   Gretchen | Sep 21, 2008 09:35pm | #4

   I think the milk paint would be great also. If it is desired to have something show through, the vaseline could still be used, and it would be bare wood showing. Then the OP could rub in some stain to darken that wood.  Not sure what kind of distressing is desired exactly.Gretchen

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   Marv | Sep 22, 2008 04:51pm | #5

   Thanks to all. I'll go with the milk paint.  Picture to follow.You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.

   Marv

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   dkellernc | Sep 22, 2008 07:17pm | #6

   Mary - Might be too late for this, but if you want a crackle-type finish so that the barn red is cracked with the white showing underneath, there's another (and in my opinion, better) way to do it than with vaseline.  You paint on the white (or other) color first, let it harden overnight, then brush the surface where you want the crackle with liquid hide glue.  Let that dry, then overcoat it with the red.  The red will crackle as it dries.

   Here's a link:

   http://www.jonespg.com/paint_tips/Jones%20Paint%20-%20Faux%20Finishing%202.pdf

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   Gretchen | Sep 22, 2008 07:46pm | #7

   I think you have to use latex paint.Gretchen

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   dkellernc | Sep 22, 2008 07:55pm | #8

   It does work with milk paint as the top coat - I've tried it.  Seems the re-hydrating and then subsequent shrinkage of the hide glue is what does the crackling.  I presume if that's the case then one would have to use a water-based paint, though.

   Another way to do it with oil-based paint is with a blowtorch.  I've also done that, but I don't really recommend it, as it stinks and it's pretty easy to go too far and char the paint.

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   Gretchen | Sep 23, 2008 12:13am | #9

   Interesting. I guess it is because milk paint is water based.  I do know you can control the degree of crackling by diluting the hide glue (if you want a finer crackle). The thing I dislike about crackling is that it usually looks so fake--too big a crackle, although on a barn, that could be a good thing.Gretchen