TS's lockdown diary

I like the Sharpie idea. What removes Sharpie? You could tidy up the edges by running a brush of whatever along the side of the ironwork. It's easier to pain neatly up to the ironwork than paint neatly along the raised surface.

That's a good point, hadn't thought of re-touching the grey. I neatened up the edges by very gently scraping them with a pointed needle file, I don't know of any substances that will remove sharpie ink,

I use a Posca pen for this rather than a Sharpie. With that pen, it's very easy to neatly paint the top of ironwork. This can be important when colouring internal ironwork as I find it hard to invisibly touch up flaws in the painted wood.

 

Posca pens are very cheap and available on-line (if the supplier is trading during the crisis).