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Everything you always wanted to know about Aerated Concrete Blocks (AAC) for tiki carving |
Bowana
Grand Member (4 years) 
Joined: Nov 10, 2006
Posts: 1117
From: La Mesa, CA
|  Posted: 2007-07-08 9:21 pm Permalink
Nice fridge, Hewey! Be sure to post shots of what you make out of it. I've got an AAC Moai that has been asking me to finish it for months now.
Do you ever paint yours? I'm going to try a test on a scrap with a wash of really watery acrylic and let the AAC soak it up like a sponge.
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hewey
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 14, 2004
Posts: 4270
From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2007-07-08 9:54 pm Permalink
I've painted a couple. I've just straight acrylic. Just remember, they usually reccomend a concrete primer before painting.
Here's a great wesbite on carving a hunk of AAC thats been glued together from smaller bricks:
http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/frith/Art/Satyananda/fashioning_1.htm
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Aaron's Akua
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Jul 09, 2004
Posts: 1594
From: Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
| Posted: 2007-07-08 10:13 pm Permalink
Great link, Hewey. The finished sculpture is really life-like. Very cool. You'd never know that it was pieced together after the rendering.
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