Fig. 1: Painti-F-Front
- Cloth: Green right twill
- Border: Merrowed
Fig. 2: Painti-F-Reverse
- Back: Gauze reinforced starched
Item Name: Painting 1961 - 1968
Item ID: Painti-F
Collector Rating: 1
Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge
Requirements February 1955 until June 1972
1. (a) Explain at least three ways in which a coat of pain can improve a surface. (b) Explain the chief uses of oil, water, and rubber base paints, also enamel, shellac, varnish, and lacquer. Tell what qualities of each make it suited to these uses.
2. Prepare and paint any two of the following items or similar ones approved by your counselor, using satisfactory fillers, priming coats, covering coats, and finishing coats as necessary:
An exterior surface
An interior surface
An article of furniture
A concrete or cement wall
A boat or canoe
A floor
A porch rail or fence
A lawn mower
3. Prepare an old painted surface, containing holes and uneven surfaces, to receive and retain a new coat of paint.
4. Add colors to a white paint base so as to produce paints of two predetermined colors that harmonize. With these paint properly one of the following items in two colors: model plane, birdhouse, furniture, serving tray, dollhouse, picture frame, or similar useful item approved by your counselor.
5. Demonstrate the proper methods for using, cleaning, and storing a paintbrush, paint roller, or spray gun.