Always love finding ways of applying knowledge gained by modeling around the house. The latest was a pair of bathroom medicine cabinets needing refurbishing. Sorry I didn't take "before" shots of them. Sanded them down, airbrushed them with decanted Rust-oleum gloss white, smoothed the result with coarse steel wool and sanding pads, then hosed them with paint again. Second coat was applied straight out of the can. (Job was actually a little big for my Paasche.)
Not as smooth as the original factory finish, but way brighter than what I started with. And way less expensive than new cabinets. Onward, home improvement.
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It's funny how things from our hobby "cross-pollinate" to other applications. Years ago I worked for a shop that repaired and restored Porsches. I found I could spot very minor flaws in primer coats and finishes either with close inspection or using my fingertips - flaws that other more experienced souls had not (and this was a very, very, very good bodyshop, by the by) - just the way I'd found them on filled joints on my models. In turn, they exposed me to a many things involving color matching, paint mixing, and tools and supplies (8000 grit Nikken paper, for instance) that I could apply to my scale models.
I miss those old steel bathroom cabinets. Well-made and durable, and they last forever (and you can refinish them over and over again, too). Hell, the only thing that ever broke in ours was an occasional glass shelf, and they could be easily replaced. Nice work on those two!
Posted by: Terence Burns | October 20, 2015 at 02:44 PM