Building the war room of my dreams

Finally doing some actual work again.

The process :

• prepare the table with a cover
• lay scrap pieces of mdf on top
• try and lift the sliding door of the rail
• lay it flat on the table
• clean it with some kind of detergent/degreasing the local DIY store recommended
• prime it dark gray
• wait (5+ hours according to the instructions on the tin)
• mask off the edge between the blue and dark gray parts
• paint both parts
• wait for paint to dry
• try and fit the sliding door back on the rail
• repeat

Getting the doors back onto the rails again was the worst part of this entire process. There are two sets of rails. The doors on the ‘back’ rails were easy to lift off. The ones on the front … not so much. Getting them back involved a lot of cursing. It doesn’t help that the doors are as tall as the room itself and my lifting capabilities are severely underpowered.

At the time of this update I have finished priming the last door.

Fun facts:

Instead of accurately measuring the height of the blue edges I used the size of the T-square as a reference. It is about 28 cm tall on the short edge, which more or less matched the height I wanted them to be anyway.

If I had waited for the dark blue to dry before painting the center dark gray I could have avoided the unpainted stripes that delineate the borders between those sections. That would have delayed the completion of this part of the project. I think that in hindsight the end result is better. It won’t stay primer gray forever though.

Original design called for hazard stripes at the top and bottom of the panels.
At this time I’m not convinced it will look good. I had been planning to use tape to do that effect, because painting those stripes was a bit too much effort anyway.

Of course it’s not 100% finished.

Things to do :

1. paint the edges of the door panels
2. prime and paint the frame
3. clean up the paint on the door themselves
4. detailing, which includes vinyl stickers