Lock Wheels  13                                                5-2024

 

Painting Continued

 

What you see here are stencils that Angela made. There are 11 of them per wheel and now it's time to start painting. Now I thought about spray painting each one but that would require a lot of masking so we decided to use a brush instead. The color will be gloss black.
 

 

 

Problems

 

As you can see things didn't go very well. We were both painting on different wheels but when it was time to peel off the stencil, it took off more than we bargained for and the images don't look good at all.
 

 

 

There were a few that looked pretty good, but most of them look like this.
 

 

 

This was truly heartbreaking for both of us. And the only thing I could do at this point is to sand the paint off all the wheels and start over.
 

 

 

I let the paint dry and the next day I started sanding all the wheels again. This took me all day but I was able to repaint them all and get it assembled again. Boy was I tired after that!
 

 

 

It's Finished

 

Two days later I helped the kids install it. Then Angela used stickers in place of stencils, which was much easier. And as you can see, it looks amazing. Now for the other larger lock wheels, they will end up with stickers too.
 

 

 

We should've used stickers from the beginning (live and learn), but on the plus side, everything works great. This was a really big project but the kids are very happy with it and so am I.
 

 

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