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I decided it was time to finally give Goliath a better paint job and waterproof him with DryLok while I was at it.  In 2006, I fashioned him a pedestal out of some scrap lumber and foam I had laying around and gave it a quick crappy paint job at 4PM on Halloween eve.  Nothing like last minute spur-of-the-moment projects!  Anyway, I took him apart, and coated the whole thing with 2 coats of DryLok Masonry Waterproofer.  He was good and solid feeling after that.  Then I painted him a base black.  On top of that, I painted him a medium gray.  I have an automotive sprayer that I had for this.  (Makes life so much easier!)  I gave him an aged look by brushing some black paint on in spots  like you would see on old stuff that's been outside for a long time, then  I sprayed that with a mist of water and watched it run.  This gave a real mildewed and rained on look.  After working on this for about 2 hours, I decided to go with some olive green for some mold here and there.  I just dabbed it on here and there, not much, then sprayed with the water bottle to get it to run and look natural.  This is something that has to be worked with a few times to get it to look right.  That's about it!  He'll be getting rebuilt somewhat though, because he got pretty dinged up while being transported to my son's middle school, and thanks to lots of wind and rain in the 2 weeks prior to Halloween.

         

 

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