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Building a spray booth large enough for 1/350 scale carriers that will vent to the outdoors. This has been a tough winter in Michigan and spraying indoors safely will be great.

EJ

I'm going to build a replacement wood exhaust vent plate for my spray booth. I vent the hood through a dryer duct and out the window of the upstairs room I use. Since I can't leave it in place permanently, I'm currently using a cardboard piece to hold the duct and help block out the elements whenever I airbrush. Needless to say, it's not optimal. Here's what the current setup looks like (next to the window I use it in).



I'm going to replace this cardboard, which has now soldiered on for more than three years, with a wooden version that is either one solid piece (like the cardboard), or hinged to allow it to fit more easily. Here are the materials I'll use.

Some MDF I got at Home Depot and asked them to cut to size, since I don't have the tools to do so:



Window gaskets, some cabinet hinges, an exhaust outlet, and a duct collar:



I also got a 4 and 1/8" hole saw to drill a hole in the MDF. I'll draw a picture of what I'm thinking of doing later on and post it.

Well, we were snowed in today, so I didn't have to go to work and made good progress on my exhaust vent plate over the course of the impromptu three day weekend. I drilled the holes in the MDF with the hole saw on Saturday (incidentally, I discovered I need a new drill, as my batteries are not holding much of a charge). Here's what they looked like:



Drilling the holes was a new experience for me, as I had never used a hole saw before. The torque on those things is quite something--you definitely get a kick if the saw seizes up.

I then started the painting process pretty much right away. I used leftover paint for house exteriors. I decided to paint the vent plates because they'll be exposed to moisture, and I don't want them to warp or get soggy or moldy.

I finished putting two coats on all sides early today and let it cure until this afternoon. Here's what the panels looked like just a couple of hours ago.



I waited four hours between coats to make sure I was doing it right, but was not terribly neat and did not try to even out my brush marks. This won't be winning any prizes for beauty!





Next, I'll be putting the gaskets on the panels (and getting around to drawing a diagram of how the hinged one will work).

Here's the diagram I drew of how the hinged version of the plate will work. I'm still not sure whether to put a gasket between the two hinged boards.

looking good!! I spent the weekend in bed Sick. UGH

I managed to get the Metal out of the shipping tube last night.... I guess it's a step in the right direction.

Signed up. I should be able to come up with a few things to share.

I am glad that this campaign is up and running. Been trying awhile haven't we Matt.

I have lots of ideas......I just need to get started on them.

I created a banner for the campaign, if that is okay with you Matt, as you can see below at the bottom of my profile. If it is liked please feel free to use it.

Thanks,
Randy

Love the banner, its got my vote for the campaign banner.

Hi all,

I just started bashing together my new hobby room yesterday so I'll post up some pics later. It's a tiny room hardly enough room to swing the cat but it will do until I demolish half the house and build a whole new wing lol.

Paul

Well I decided that the entire room would be ac little big for an entry so I will use just one item I am building for this campaign.

I am building a board with space to hold some small bits and pieces along with an area to hold the current kit instructions. I may include a little space on the bottom to place up a few reference pics.

I am using offcuts from my desk as it is around the right size so as it stands it will be.... roughly 13 inches wide by 16 inches high. I will be mounting the clip centrally(a large bulldog type clip) held on by a large washer, nuts and bolt. The 4 bolts to hold the bits will be 6mm and attached in a similar fashion with a wing nut used to retain the packets. I will post some pics later in the weekend as I don't expect it to take too long to build.

Paul

Here is a couple of pics of the Paint rack I built. It may not be pretty but its extremely functionable. Its based of a nail polish rack I had seen online.

A few pics....



The board



Fixings, holes having been drilled earlier. I added a second piece of MDF at the rear to allow me to recess the set screws.



The recessed holes.



With the M6 bolts fitted just needs washers and nuts.






Wit the wing nuts added to hold bags onto board. Just need to shorten an M8 bolt for the main item and then I will be pretty much done.

Paul

I whas working on my BA-64 in the lightweight armour campaign and thought I needed to have some strap belts. so I used my tweezers to make a strap buckles however it did not really whas to my liking so with some metal and some tools in the shed I made an strap buckle tweezers.
This is the result of the 10min workout (not sure if this has been thought off already as I did not really shearched for it) I just needed it!

Take a pice of scheet metal


Cut it! (first half and then all the way you need)


Grind it so it's not to round in the edges


I made a bent in the pice so it's better to handel


So, stick a pice of really fine copper wire into the home made tweezer

(hazy picture, sorry for this)

And bent the wire all around the tweezer


Dip the joining side into the super glue to prevent it from getting out of shape and gut it from the wire




The tool with the end result


And the final result on the model (the left one), maybe not the best that you can get but it's cheaper that PE

How are everyone's projects going??? Life's been kicking my butt outside of work so I haven't gotten much done, But I'm hoping to here shortly again!

I've finished my exhaust vent plate! Here's a pic of the one I went with and the articulating one I built as an option.

Hi Matt,

I think I'm done on this one. Here are a few last pics...



The central clip to hole kit instructions, notes etc.(list od parts to borrow from one of my other kits at the moment.





The part retain clip system in operation.

Cheers it was great to build something in 1:1 scale for a change.

Paul

Will this do?





I'm also in the process of making a spout, for Tamiya paints.

built two tools in the last year, one was a multi gripper paint stand and one was a bench organizer.

Started out with a lazy suzan bought at bennys for like 4 dollars....

added some pieces of 12/3 wire and aligator clips....

and ended up with more hands than I will ever need hopefully

My second project was even more useful, and almost as simple to build. It is a paint stand, tool stand, glue and everything stand that takes up about 6 inches in depth of space, by about 2 feet. Its 18 inches high. 20 dollars at local hardware store paid for it all with some pieces of leftover pvc rounding it out. Unfortunately I did not take in progress pics, but its come in quite handy. One 6 foot piece of half in oak and a couple of pieces of quarter inch oak make the frame.

For some underwing ordnance I needed to paint some bombs with such a annoying yellow line (I do not have a steady hand and I don't like masking tinny lines) so quick and easy,..please

Being creative I used 2 plastic pieces of polystyrene glued together with 4 holes in it, 2 small and 2 roughly the same size as the diameter of where the yellow line is required to be, also cut the above strip roughly till half way in 2 this so you can set 1 piece before the other more easily.



Paint the ordnance yellow and after drying place in to the fixture,...




2 seconds after your favorite green color of choice,..Voilà, ready (except the bottom which needs a little patch-up)

I enlisted a while ago so now I should come up with an idea to build something useful. I was thinking of a painting rack of sorts to hold a model while being painted.

There's always a solution:






And I built this simple dihedral jig out of balsa earlier this year, during a Boeing 777 Dual Build. I still use it as a jig and a painting stand.
Sorry, no plans; but, its simple if you look at it. Took me a Sunday afternoon.


Ben