Got all the trimming, and folding, and tucking done on the body.\
The first order of business was to get it up where I could work on it. It had been resting on two 8" tubes. I had to lift it with a forklift to get the tubes out of the way and get some pallets down for it to rest on, so I wasn't standing ON my head to paint down the bottom edge. It's stapled to the wood frame and covered with lotsa block filler.
On the block filler paint:
It's some thick heavy stuff. Lots of solids in the paint. Here's a picture of the resulting wall texture. This is one coat.
It's not exactly the look I was going for, but it looks ok. It'll look even better with a topcoat on it. I now have three coats of block filler on the body, with one pass in between with 80 grit sandpaper, just to knock down the points.
I made an absolute MESS of the cut of the top, so after I got the edges painted down, and the accompanying frayed edges and loose stringies, I ran a line of spackling from the cut end to the edge.
The idea was to make the seam less offending. It worked to a point. If you're looking for it you'll see it, so don't go looking for it.
So at the end of this day we have this.
The canvas was cut folded and painted into into the doorway and around my two front holes. The doorway will be finished with door stop moulding, which will cover it completely. I have doors made out of the glue laminated foam that I cut out to make the holes. Gotta wrap them and install
Waiting on hinges and door hardware, so I'm going to the LAKE tomorrow with the fam. Back at it Monday.
Happy Memorial Day. As my program director directed us this week. We celebrate July 4, we REMEMBER Memorial Day.
Mark
by CliffinGA » Tue May 22, 2012 9:23 pm 
