I had to re-cut the side that everything ports out of, the nice laser cut panel I had intended to use would not work with the new design for the outside casing, below shows the simplified design... not quite laser cut, but close.
The following picture shows all the panels lined up awaiting a couple coats of vinyl dye, it's starting to get dark so I have to work quick.
Using a hair dryer in between spraying I managed to get four coats down before it went pitch black outside, below you can see the panels after I removed their contact paper masks.
The final bit for today involved mocking the entire thing up again to make sure everything lines up... which it so far appears to, below shows where I'm at.
Ok, I wasted a bunch of time trying first to chemically blacken the aluminum edges...
And then trying to prepaint them...
The side panels were all taped in place then the bottom edge pieces were lined up and traced with a silver Sharpie to make their placement easier.
Below shows the four bottom edge pieces installed.
The following picture shows all the panels lined up awaiting a couple coats of vinyl dye, it's starting to get dark so I have to work quick.
Using a hair dryer in between spraying I managed to get four coats down before it went pitch black outside, below you can see the panels after I removed their contact paper masks.
The final bit for today involved mocking the entire thing up again to make sure everything lines up... which it so far appears to, below shows where I'm at.
Ok, I wasted a bunch of time trying first to chemically blacken the aluminum edges...
And then trying to prepaint them...
The side panels were all taped in place then the bottom edge pieces were lined up and traced with a silver Sharpie to make their placement easier.
Below shows the four bottom edge pieces installed.