The second element. Also known as, the medium(ish) sized one, and the yellow one, as the exterior colour and interior colour effect is yellow.
A slightly more complex element than the first as there is a triangular aperture in one face. (See photograph in earlier post).
The chamfering process with this element was identical to that of the first.
The aperture necessitated cutting a section from the panel, trimming it, and then replacing the required portion and fixing it in place. Of course, there was filling to be done so that the joints would not be visible once painted
The next step was to paint what would become the interior faces of the panels white, and the one with the aperture yellow (over a couple of coats of white). The panel with the aperture provides the colour which affects the interior of this element.
All that remained was to put it together, at which point I discovered some glaring inaccuracies in my construction.
At one point the chamfered edges were not flat, but slightly concave. This meant that the panels fitted roughly together. Before I had spotted that I had trimmed one of the panels…quite a bit. Consequently, when I evened out the edges I had a substantial gap to deal with.
I solved this with a good quantity of two part epoxy filler of a marginally more solid state that car body filler.
The next step was the same as the first element, fill all the other edges and sand down. Then do it again until I was reasonably happy with the result.
Once this was done I began on the exterior paintwork. Again this was a process involving lots of white emulsion, some masking off and some spray painting.
A couple of coats of white paint brought out some imperfections that I couldn’t live with, so there was some more filling and sanding and painting. Eventually I reached a satisfactory result.
Things were definitely beginning to take shape.
At this point I began thinking that I’d not yet considered how to join all three elements when finished. Certainly I wasn’t going to arrive at a scaled up version of the cardboard maquette as gravity and much more weight now played a major role in the piece.
