Ah, erm yeah, no need to worry. Things haven't gone well! 🙈
Firstly the red ink is brown. I didn't want scarlet so went for 'Indian Red' as it was a deeper dark red. On paper it might be but on this wood it's gone brown. Then as I was wiping coats on it started to drag the colour out from the previous coat, probably not dry enough but I was trying to build up costs to see if it would go a deeper red. Less haste more speed as they say. 🙄
I'm just letting it dry a bit and then I'm going to try a make or break plan.
Stay tuned for the results folks. 😄