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I don't know how they do it but it looks like the real thing yet is completely smooth once it's dry. It has a nice shine to it, too.
The color is deep orange-brown with streaks that are slightly darker which creates the look of a mottled surface.
It comes in 12-ounce cans and there's a little red plastic slide that goes over the trigger and acts as an off switch so you don't spray something by accident.
This was so handy because I had left my can on the kitchen counter for a few days and caught my 18-year-old son messing with it one morning. The slide stopped anything from coming out when he pulled the trigger, thank goodness.
The trigger is a good size and easy to use.
I was a bit heavy-handed with it at the start which caused drips to run down the side of one of my projects. I really had to force myself to do short, quick side-to-side bursts to layer it on more thinly. You'll want to do a few practice strokes to get the hang of it.
The paint has great coverage and comes out evenly and in a spray that is about 6 inches in diameter at about a foot from the surface that you're painting.
The instructions say it dries to the touch in 30 minutes and I found that to be accurate but it's still soft and a bit tacky.
They also say you should do two coats and apply the second one an hour after the first. I had laid a small item on one side, painted as much as I could, waited an hour, and then rotated the piece to expose the unpainted portion.
An hour later, when I rotated the piece back again to give the first side a second coat, the paint was still tacky and stuck to my plastic drop cloth.
I highly recommend using plastic under the item you want to paint rather than paper of any kind as paper may stick to the paint and make a mess of your project.
If you need to paint something like a box where you'll need to rotate the piece in order to get all sides, I suggest applying the two coats on as much of the item at once as you can and then waiting AT LEAST 24 hours before rotating the piece.
You can read about my solar torch project here. The final result of that project looks a bit different than it does in the image below. I'd take a look at both so you get a good feel for what your own item can look like.
I also used it to paint a galvanized steel vase I'd been using outside to hold flowers and pinwheels at the edge of our pool.
Below is an image of my vase project. The drips at the base are what happens when you put it on too thick as it will run to the bottom.
