You can see here how the top coat lets a lot of the base colour show through. Step 2 Paint your top coat over the base coat. Also paint the inside of the peat pots. Depending on what you are putting in the pots when finished you may have to paint the entire inside of both of them. For mine I only half painted one of the insides and fully did the second one. You will see why later. Step 3 When the pots are fully painted and dry place them one on top of the other. You will notice they have a little rim on the edges. You will need to trim away some of this rim so that your hinge can sit flat against the pot. To find out where you need to trim hold the hinge up against the side of one of the pots and mark on either side of it. Then cut out this section between the marked lines. Then line this top pot up with the bottom pot. Use the top pot as the template to mark where to trim off on the second pot. This step is not necessary but it does make the pots sit together when hinged and lot better.
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