Nintendo cabinet build - Wreck-It Ralph

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UnclearHermit:
After finishing up with the matt black I moved onto a satin black (from Toolstation, UK-folk) for the front of the sides, leaving the top-rear matt. This was going on really well until I was getting near the end of the second side when I realised a mistake. Well, two. Firstly, in a moment of insanity I seem to have place my "vertical line" in different places on the two sides, so my paint extends further back in the bottom area. What I seem to have done here is to stick the masking tape on the wrong side of the line :banghead: I've corrected that for the satin coat, but it means I'll have a random couple of cm of matt paint in the lower section on one side. Whether I can sand that back to wood remains to be seen.

The other mistake is around the marquee support. I'd originally taped off where the thin wood attaches to the side of the cabinet to support the marquee sides. I'd then decided that I wasn't happy that the placement was accurate enough, because I can't quite be sure where things will end up when I assemble the various pieces. So I removed that piece of tape, figuring that having the support attached to painted wood isn't the end of the world for something that's just there to stop the marquee sides sagging (and to block light leakage , I assume). Unfortunately it seems that I only removed this piece of wood from ONE side :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

On the plus side I've removed the tape from this area and it comes off beautifully, so I'm more confident when it comes to removing the tape from other areas later. The downside is that I now have an area that I've got to bring up to level and then get black without creating masses of paint build-up around it. Just hoping I can do the sanding and painting justice, and it's such an annoying waste of time. This is the point where people will tell me I should have painted the sides later on ;)

Closer image, where you can see it after a bit of primer etc.

Wyo:
I love this build. Your meticulous attention to detail is awesome. Can’t wait to see how it turns out!

UnclearHermit:
Thanks, really appreciated, especially when I feel like I'm going backwards :)

I've been on holiday, so no real updates other than the sanding and filling of the "mistake". This feels like a bit of an endless slog because I always seem to end up with a slight dent that's still not filled or a ridge of filler that stubbornly refuses to go anywhere. After a lot of cycles I'm still not happy with things, and to make matters "worse" I ended up with a different texture on this bit of the panel because of the repeated sanding. The rest of the panel has a slightly mottled feel that I was quite happy with and which I hadn't really thought much about. The picture isn't great, but hopefully gives an idea.

After sanding the problem are I ended up with a much smoother finish, especially after I discovered the delights of wet & dry sanding at 600 grit. Where this has left me is a situation where I couldn't really have the repaired area with a different texture, so I'm having to sand down the whole thing and then touch up the spray afterwards. On the plus side this isn't a bad finish at all, but it's extra work. Still not happy with those uneven areas that you can see on the right, but since most will be behind the marquee then I'm getting tempted to live with it. My fear is the slight unknown of what will stand out when the cabinet is in more natural light than its current garage home.

Again, happy to be learning this stuff whilst working on stuff that'll mostly be on the inside and that's certainly a lot smaller area than when I come to do the outside.

gingecko:
I'm going down a similar road, but doing a partial assembly then take everything apart to paint individually. I made a big screw up and had already painted the base, after fixing that mess....it's "assembly and then paint!". I'll be taping everything off when I get down to paint time and probably labelling things, so I know which piece goes where. I remember that being the other problem with my first cab...I took everything apart for painting and then couldn't remember where some of the framing boards were attaching. :P

Looking good though, and I'm curious to see how it goes!

paulliadis:
Posts like these make me want to try to build my own Nintendo cabinet.

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