Layer 06 · Section
Damage
Cracks, cupping, losses and flaking.
Raking light at a shallow angle turns every deformation in the surface into a shadow — cracks, cupping, and the ridge along a join all read at once.
Photo: Jan van der Wolf / Pexels
Cupping, cleavage, flaking, blanching and the crack networks. Damage on a panel is legible: the pattern tells you which force caused it, roughly when, and whether anything can be done about it now.
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03Cupping and flaking
The paint layer lifting away from the ground, and the consolidation that answers it.
Tobias Freem · 4 minBlanching
A whitish haze in the paint film that is not dirt and does not clean off.
Anders Lem · 2 minFire and water
Two histories that leave unmistakable and opposite signatures.
Anders Lem · 2 min