Getting Ready to GO

These past two weeks have been a bit slow in regards to the progress I have been making on my project. Ive been waiting for things like new paint and the Lexan sheet itself to get in. Physically I have patched all the nail holes with wood filler, painted the inside frame where I will screw in the Lexan material and installed the doors back on, which was very difficult since it seems to be bowing a bit in the center.

As mentioned in my last blog post I had found out that all the paint I had gotten in the end would not work. I tried a wide variety of tests but and frustrated at the end I realized the paint pallet I was mixing on from the two weeks before had hardened into a cement I couldn't even chip or peel with a lot of force. While the painting pallet I had used back in August was still very easy to scratch and peel. I had an ah ha moment and decided to look at the two different paints side by side. The one I was trying to work with is a permanent acrylic while when I initially did my test I had just used cheap paint I had laying around from an old project. That cheap paint ended up being a washable flow paint, ideally used for doing a pour technique styled painting . And just like what I saw in the suggestions of the research I did about window painting it was soap and water washable.

So I ordered some of the exact same cheap flow paint. Unfortunately it only came in 6 colors, white, black, red, yellow, green, and blue. This is a little sad because I will have to mix all of my own colors, which I can do but will take more time, I at least wish that there was a brown, but I will make due. I mixed the paint up with the soap and painted a few samples on my test material. I am going to give it a good week before I try scratching it off. Right off the bat I noticed that it was behaving differently from the other paint, and that my pure paint spot seemed to be drying almost transparent when my other test spots with soap weren't which was interesting. The 50/50 dried most solid but also had some drippage. My large piece of Lexan is in as of last night but I cant fit it in the car and will have to wait till Thursday to borrow a truck that it will fit in. Now that it is here there is nothing that will stop this ship from sailing forward. (As long as the paint tests arnt a dud.) I will screw in the TV mount, mount the TV and then add the Lexan and then get started on painting!