Priming

Due to being kinda in the middle of something it took a little time to post something new. That something we're still in the middle of is PAINTING the cab. 

This so far took and still takes the most of our time we've invested in our hobby. This is because of the variant we decided to do this.

Online there's no straight information how to achieve the best result or erm... let's say there's millions of different opinions but never a conclusion wether or not it was actually a proper way to paint an MDF cab so it will look like it never had a different colour than the one you want it to have. 

So what did we do? We decided to go for a 2-component woodprimer, which we coated the cab in twice. 

Where we live the weather in April ist pretty unstable, so you never know...could start raining every second. For that reason we covered the floor of our dining room with papers and enjoyed inhaling some fumes. 
Kidding...but even though we carefully paid attention to keep the premises aerated well, we couldn't avoid 'tleast the intense smell of fresh paint.

Between applying the primer you should not forget the sanding. After the first coating we used 180 sandpaper and cleaned the surfaces with a moist towel. After the second coating we used 240 sandpaper and cleaned again. 

Some side-note: For all parts to be painted twice we needed about one and a half litres of the primer. First we got only one and so had to fetch a new can. 
Sadly the store ran out of the 2-component primer too. That was when we went for half a litre one-component primer. 
A bad choice as we think, because that one doesn't cover half as well as the two-component one. Luckily we've had done all the important/visible parts already and there were only the down- and some inside parts left to paint.

After a week of everyday painting, grinding an cleaning we got surfaces that are without exagerating...smooth as velvet.

For the actual coating we bought a one-component black paint. Let's hope the wonderful primer-layer already did the trick, so that a one-component paint will suffice.