Workbench: Progress on the front

Made some progress. I'm seeing the boards to completion, but there are some serious lessons learned on these boards that will follow to the next iteration.

1. Without wood guards on the edges, getting the insulation foam cut at a perfect 90 degree angle is critically important. A few extra minutes spent on this cut pays off 10-20 fold later on. And even then, corrections later on are inferior.

2. I've heard of it before, but Spray paint and foam should never mingle. Foam sometimes dissolves like coming into contact with the acid blood from Aliens. The roads on the large boards did just this and required extra work.

3. Proper surface preparation and cleanliness is also critical. I skimped on this to some degree and many times flotsam from one board or project would complicate the stage of another.

4. A clear well ordered design stage pays dividends. These boards are following a 16" lowest common denominator (being either 16x32 or 16x16), and while I like the room it gives over 12" and it's not big as 24", in retrospect I wish I went 24".

5. Always test. I like in this I made a slight compromise and did various effects on different sections to see their outcome, and then retrofitted where possible to the others.

Using outdoor paint/primer to give the broad colors.



Spray paint to speed up the details of the rest.



Bringing in some color variation and neutralizing the contrast.



Flocking... Really starting to resemble the color tones of the old ASL boards.




ACTION SHOTS!