first with this piece i decided to test how to mount the pictures on to the foam board, at first i thought i could heat press on to both sides but when i tryed this the double heating process caused the first side to peel away.
so i went back to the drawring board, and thought i might try spray mount but thought the image would crumple, when a friend suggested that i should use two pieces of thinner board and stick them together.
so i precedeeded to heat press each seperate one and glue them together with wood glue, i then had to trim each one which i had problems with as i couldnt get a clean line on the board. so i had to get one of the techinitions to give me a hand.
the next thing i had to do was to glue all the hooks in, at first i only glued them in part way to leave to hook free but when i tested them they werent strong enough and fell out. so i went to a fishing shop and found some small black clips to use.
I then proceeded to remove all the hooks and re glue them imbedding them fully into the foamboad with the clips already on. this looked better and was much much stronger.
i then had to decide what was best for covering up the stark white sides of the foam board i tryed 3 methords, card, tape, and paint. the paint did not work as it was to shiny and picked up the flaws in the foam board, the card worked but was time consuming and had a lot of room for error, so i went with insulation tape sticking it on the edge and scalpling around the edges.
with every methord except the paint the area around the hook is left white so i purchased a permanent marker and coloured in the white patches, so under the one strip light the white patches dont show up as bad.
