Finally built my custom background for my glass tank with some concept Ideas.
Firstly brought a glass viv off eBay from (handsproductsuk) and it was a 70x40x50 in size.
Because I was doing a fixed fake background on a glass tank I didn't wanna see the back and sides so I cut out my background from spacefoam...
I then placed the background into the viv and drew around the edges onto the glass I then took the background back out and put masking tape round where I had marked like so....
Once I did that I got some black enamel spray paint and and spray painted the glass where the back ground would be...
I also left a little peep hole on the side so I can see him when he's asleep.
Then I glued the back ground to the glass with no more nails. Like so...
I then applied a primer to the background .,.
And then applied the paint.
And then after that put a couple of coats of pva and a small amount of sand in the pva mix so it's not a slippery surface.
Then put all the thermostats back in and put sand in
And then it was nearly finished to put the little man in.
Firstly brought a glass viv off eBay from (handsproductsuk) and it was a 70x40x50 in size.
Because I was doing a fixed fake background on a glass tank I didn't wanna see the back and sides so I cut out my background from spacefoam...
I then placed the background into the viv and drew around the edges onto the glass I then took the background back out and put masking tape round where I had marked like so....
Once I did that I got some black enamel spray paint and and spray painted the glass where the back ground would be...
I also left a little peep hole on the side so I can see him when he's asleep.
Then I glued the back ground to the glass with no more nails. Like so...
I then applied a primer to the background .,.
And then applied the paint.
And then after that put a couple of coats of pva and a small amount of sand in the pva mix so it's not a slippery surface.
Then put all the thermostats back in and put sand in
And then it was nearly finished to put the little man in.