Now onto the backbox for the base colour. Here are some images again of the backbox, closer up. The bottom lefthand front corner had a bracket “holding” the two edges together, which needed attention to fix.
After filling and sanding.
OK, back to the main cabinet and the stencils. As mentioned above, the “rainbow” stripes were created through a combined use of stencils (to provide the exact location of the stripe), and finally with a narrow strip of painters tape.
Here are two of these stencils, providing the edges of where to place the tape. Parts of this stencil would be cutout to effectively create the guide for the tape. The very small holes at the top of each of these stencils are the siderail nail holes, thus provide a registration for when the stencil is applied to the cabinet.
The following image shows this a bit better I hope. As mentioned above, parts of the stencil were cut out, and taped in position on the cabinet (no need to use an adhesive here, they were just needed to be held in position while the painters tape was applied). I then ran the narrow painters tape along the edge of the stencil. I did not get this idea from anyone, just an idea that popped into my head of doing it this way. Here the righthand side of the main cabinet is being prepared for the orange stripes to be sprayed (the stencil not only guides where the painters tape is to go, but also provides a block for the orange spray in this case).
Hope this all makes sense, not the easiest to explain. Anyway, here is the outcome at this stage.
