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Dave_Pete
Mar 04, 2015Explorer II
The following pictures show a second coat of bronze. The next application will be the first coat of mahogany-tinted poly, two coats of which have already been applied to both the front camper wall and the horizontal surface of the dinette wing.

Notice the shine? It's still wet. Look for a duller finish on some of these other surfaces as the paint dries. Like this one.

Still wet?

I think the paint finish is either a semi-gloss or perhaps satin, but after the poly - it will shine, as the poly is high-gloss. The back wall of the camper has only the paint. It too, as well as some other currently primed and/or un-built or un-rebuilt pieces will receive two coats of the poly as well.
This piece shows the damage from a "floppy" wall where it rode under the fridge cabinet's extended bottom edge. That was the spot I had repaired in past and re-repaired recently. But the damage is mostly hidden from view, and the galley drain in copper elbows through this spot will further hide this damage.

I started staging doors and drawers, each in a spot to coincide with a particular place in the camper. That's to help me plan their finish work as I'm not all that excited about doing them all at once. But now that they are in front of my eyes, that desire might change.
These (in the next photo) have been seen before, and are finished. They go with the dinette cabinet face. I don't think I'll hinge them after all. Their purpose is to access the basement, and to leave open when warmth is needed in the basement, neither use of which is convenient to a door hinged and laying flat to the floor. Instead I'll install with pop-out latches so as to remove them entirely and stow them elsewhere when not in place.

These next ones are for the galley. The drawers on the far right are the last remaining drawers in the camper. Can't have a galley without at least one or two drawers, and of course they are the small ones. There was no need to encroach on their reserved space.

The original drawers left of the sink cabinet is another story, that's where the water heater goes. So I removed the drawer fronts and stowed the drawers with all my other extra parts that I'll have to find a home for, and these will also pop-out - just like at the dinette basement - for rear water heater access and maintenance.
And the third larger door is for the sink cabinet access.
The groupings in the shower are this: right side - overhead storage cabinets right and left sides of the camper, left side - large cabinet above the fridge, and at the back - the door to the basement under the bathroom.

That leaves only one opening left for such a cover; the one below the bathroom toward the right where I had originally discussed placing a low voltage fan for warming the basement. Instead I'm going to make a door (smaller than even my smallest drawer fronts), including the mitered plastic framing, make it a pop-out like the others, and it is there that I'll access my grey water drain valve.

Notice the shine? It's still wet. Look for a duller finish on some of these other surfaces as the paint dries. Like this one.

Still wet?

I think the paint finish is either a semi-gloss or perhaps satin, but after the poly - it will shine, as the poly is high-gloss. The back wall of the camper has only the paint. It too, as well as some other currently primed and/or un-built or un-rebuilt pieces will receive two coats of the poly as well.
This piece shows the damage from a "floppy" wall where it rode under the fridge cabinet's extended bottom edge. That was the spot I had repaired in past and re-repaired recently. But the damage is mostly hidden from view, and the galley drain in copper elbows through this spot will further hide this damage.

I started staging doors and drawers, each in a spot to coincide with a particular place in the camper. That's to help me plan their finish work as I'm not all that excited about doing them all at once. But now that they are in front of my eyes, that desire might change.
These (in the next photo) have been seen before, and are finished. They go with the dinette cabinet face. I don't think I'll hinge them after all. Their purpose is to access the basement, and to leave open when warmth is needed in the basement, neither use of which is convenient to a door hinged and laying flat to the floor. Instead I'll install with pop-out latches so as to remove them entirely and stow them elsewhere when not in place.

These next ones are for the galley. The drawers on the far right are the last remaining drawers in the camper. Can't have a galley without at least one or two drawers, and of course they are the small ones. There was no need to encroach on their reserved space.

The original drawers left of the sink cabinet is another story, that's where the water heater goes. So I removed the drawer fronts and stowed the drawers with all my other extra parts that I'll have to find a home for, and these will also pop-out - just like at the dinette basement - for rear water heater access and maintenance.
And the third larger door is for the sink cabinet access.
The groupings in the shower are this: right side - overhead storage cabinets right and left sides of the camper, left side - large cabinet above the fridge, and at the back - the door to the basement under the bathroom.

That leaves only one opening left for such a cover; the one below the bathroom toward the right where I had originally discussed placing a low voltage fan for warming the basement. Instead I'm going to make a door (smaller than even my smallest drawer fronts), including the mitered plastic framing, make it a pop-out like the others, and it is there that I'll access my grey water drain valve.
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