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Step 7Paint the whole shebang
Now we go back to where we left off earlier; painting the edges. This I did just so that I wouldn't have to go too close to the outer frame and dribble paint all over it, and so that there wouldn't show any white parts between the outer frame and the actual canvas. This can actually turn out to be a problem since the surplus canvas, especially at the corners where you have to fold it, gets rather thick. So take care to paint the edge of the thicker plastic canvas or you'll go nuts noticing it.
Once you're done painting the edge you screw on the outer frame. Now, if I got to do it all over, I wouldn't have chosen to do the outer frame in two pieces. The original plan was this: the outer frame would consist of eight finished and miter jointed pieces (30mm x 17mm each) forming a two-layered frame. The first four, inner, pieces would be fastened by screws and then the outer framed would simply be glued onto the inner one, that way I couldn't have to cover up ugly screw heads. This was a bad idea because of the miter joints. Since I kindof skimped on the miter box, the precision wasn't really up to par, but even if it had been, it would have been almost impossible to get all the sixteen (yeah, that's right) angles to align properly. You also need to screw in the loops from which to hang the whole thing.
Oh well, time to paint. I hung the screen and fed the image to the projector. The first thing you should do is to put masking tape along all straight lines since it's harder than it seems to paint along a straight line. I thought I could get away with it but had to go back and redo the lines afterwards. Be sure to seal the edges of the tape as seen in the pictures so that the paint doesn't bleed in under the edges of the tape.
After the lines are done, the rest is just hard work. I figured it would take a couple of hours, but it ended up with me going to bed at five in the morning (I'd started painting at about eleven I think, it's all a haze actually). Since I had my flatwarming party the next day I really wanted it to be ready by then.
Once you're done painting the edge you screw on the outer frame. Now, if I got to do it all over, I wouldn't have chosen to do the outer frame in two pieces. The original plan was this: the outer frame would consist of eight finished and miter jointed pieces (30mm x 17mm each) forming a two-layered frame. The first four, inner, pieces would be fastened by screws and then the outer framed would simply be glued onto the inner one, that way I couldn't have to cover up ugly screw heads. This was a bad idea because of the miter joints. Since I kindof skimped on the miter box, the precision wasn't really up to par, but even if it had been, it would have been almost impossible to get all the sixteen (yeah, that's right) angles to align properly. You also need to screw in the loops from which to hang the whole thing.
Oh well, time to paint. I hung the screen and fed the image to the projector. The first thing you should do is to put masking tape along all straight lines since it's harder than it seems to paint along a straight line. I thought I could get away with it but had to go back and redo the lines afterwards. Be sure to seal the edges of the tape as seen in the pictures so that the paint doesn't bleed in under the edges of the tape.
After the lines are done, the rest is just hard work. I figured it would take a couple of hours, but it ended up with me going to bed at five in the morning (I'd started painting at about eleven I think, it's all a haze actually). Since I had my flatwarming party the next day I really wanted it to be ready by then.
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Mar 7, 2009. 7:50 AMswatdoc
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AWESOME instructable...do you think you could email me the artwork?
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