I have had a go at spraying the cabinet with good and bad results. I used Duxone acrylic lacquer primer and top coat which I matted down slightly. The automotive paint store people were very helpful with my questions and lack of knowledge. What a great primer, goes on thick and sands off easy. The primer does fur the timber on the first coat but after a sand and a second coat comes out great. As you can see the head box has come out fantastic. Unfortunately due to me being impatient and ignoring the recoat time it seems the side of the main cabinet has a few shrink marks as you can see in the third picture. Not to bad but I have plenty of paint left over so I will patch them and recoat. I won't move on until I am happy with the paint. A steep learning curve but I feel I could nail it next time. YES! already thinking of the next machine.