Squaring up for the challenge

I feel like I'm making good progress on my HBS Creatin' Contest build.

I carefully measured the window openings on the back wall weatherboarding (but still got it slightly wrong: nothing that won't be covered by the trim), and cut them out by hand.

Then I realised I was out of undercoat: so it was off to Masters to buy some. I also picked up some better masking tape than I have, a large tube of wood filler and a few of their free wallpaper and vinyl flooring samples.

After much thought, I decided to go with option C (undercoat and paint the external sides of both pieces, then glue together) as I figured there'd be less room for painting stuff ups that way.

After two coats of undercoat, I'm delighted to find I can hardly see the marks where I filled in the side windows (and I'm hoping they'll be even less obvious with a top coat. And a shelving unit hung over the top.)

I Frogtaped the windows and the second sliding doors (the first one arrived in pieces: I need to work out which bit goes where before I start painting it)

and then decided to throw caution to the wind and spray paint them rather than use a brush. 

 (Let's hope I don't live to regret that decision!)

Finally, I painted the rear-wall weatherboarding with topcoat. I'm impatient to see how it looks with the white windows...

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