Primer done.

Now i've sprayed it, I've realized that the extra care taken with the filler and all the sanding and polishing of the Aluminium was really worth it. It could do with another light sand, just to get rid of any slight imperfections such as runs and marks, I'll do that when I get some more primer, giving the several coats that are on now time to dry and harden.
Heres some more pictures. (Click to see enlarged)

Not much space.

So, now I've got my side panels cut out, beaten and gaps filled in with a special bonding filler (not your usual filler). I sanded them down, and now its time to spray the first coats in gray primer.
I didn't have anywhere to do it, as it was raining today, so I did it in our boiler room/storage cupboard. "Don't spray my shoes!" she says; So I went slightly crazy on masking everything up with tape and newspaper. It did its job though.
So, enough mumbling, heres a picture.
(as always, click the image to see it larger)

Fans!

Okay, so to cool the PC, I need fans. I thought about having three fans on either panel, 2 at the bottom the pull cool air in, and one at the top to push hot air out. I bought the fan grills of eBay (one of which, differs to the others) and I bought all 6 translucent green, fast-ish fans from a local computing shop, they were the cheapest I could find.

A few other modifications..

Just to add, I also heightened the head rest to make it more of a spitfire style, and I grinded off the rudder pedals, and welded a bar across, However, this needs re-welding as it is creaking when I put weight onto it. I'm planning on a simpler design for the rudder pedals, which you will see evolve.

The start of the covering..

So, as soon as I got home from getting the aluminium, I decided to start covering the wood. I started with the base and back board. This didn't take much covering, and I pot-riveted it into place. Then I started on the sides, these were considerably more difficult, and there were two sides and they had to be perfect and neat. I siliconed these into place, with the occasional pot-rivet.

Bad Pictures.. Hopefully in the next couple of days when I complete the covering I will take some better ones.

Aluminium ^.^

So, I wanted to cover my wooden chair in some sort of metal, to give it more of a tinny feel, like a spitfire, of course. I thought sheet aluminium would be best; Thin, easy to work with, light.
I found the best place to get it, off caravans! So this morning, I went up and took half the entire roof off a caravan. Someone isn't going to be happy, but I certainly am! :D


It was quite badly painted as you can see, with normal paint, this will need sanding off for the spray paint to stick.
As you can see, there is a perfect, shiny side, and a more weathered, painted side. I'm having the weathered side up, as it saves me from having to buy Aluminium primer, which is expensive and difficult to get hold of here.