Picks of my progress

brbrandon · #1 (**permalink**) 12-30-2009, 08:37 PM

I have been working on this project for about 2 weeks now. It is 4' tall 4' wide and 2' deep. What you see is all constructed of styrofoam and greatstuff then covered with its first coat of tile grout. When the final coat of grout is complete I will be painting with non toxic acrylic paint, sealing with West Systems 105 epoxy resin and 207 hardener, then applying exo terra jungle moss to the entire top 18" and flowing between all of the rocks. Please let me know what you think. Input? Questions? Thank you for looking!! This is after the epoxy resin. It ended up very glossy and I have started dulling using steel wool but it is alot of work. I may just do the tree and leave the rocks glossy, what do you think?

claymore · #2 (**permalink**) 12-31-2009, 05:13 PM

Looks great! Nice and spacey!

What are you housing in this?

brbrandon · #3 (**permalink**) 12-31-2009, 05:54 PM

Thank you for looking!!! It is for a Brazillian Rainbow Boa. She has outgrown her 40g aquarrium.

Trohr · #4 (**permalink**) 12-31-2009, 06:03 PM

What are it's dimensions? How were you going to stick the jungle moss to the epoxies? This is very cool :]

brbrandon · #5 (**permalink**) 12-31-2009, 08:22 PM

It is 4' tall, 4' wide, and 2' deep. Once painted, then covered in epoxy resin the jungle moss will be stuck to the epoxy with silicone. Lots of silicone! I can not even estimate on how many tubes I will need. After my 4th coat of grout (tomorrow) I will end up using 3 10lb bags of grout. This is taking forever... I will post pics of the 3rd coat of grout tomorrow.