Geodesic Dome Media Pod

Step 5 Filling In The Voids & Painting

This next stem is not 100% necessary, and you can just move on to the next step and assemble the unpainted Hexagon & Pentagon pieces first, then paint the dome last if you want, but I found it is better to work on the individual pieces flat on the ground first as this makes less back strain bending around the dome to fill voids and painting.

If you chose to do this step now, follow the pictures in series:

Start sanding the seams with an orbital sander and 100# Grit sand paper, grind off all the excess hot glue that extends up over the seams.

Once you clean this up, fill the voids in the seams with caulk and work into the seams.

After this dries, then re-sand the seams clean.

You can choose to spray the parts now with Canned Acoustic Ceiling touch-up spray, this ads a nice pebble finish to the dome pieces and covers up any mistakes in finishing.

Spray a primer coat of a flat based paint ( I chose black ) and then paint by hand a thick gloss coat of whatever color you want to make your dome - ( I chose Black )

Once you have painted the outsides of all the 6 Pentagons & 14 Hexagons, as well as the 5 Modified Pentagon base pieces, you are done with this step.