Brian Paonessa

At work last summer we decided to toss this old grungy cabinet that was once a table for the fax machine. This thing was nasty, but it was a metal cabinet so I took it home and added it to my “to do” list of projects.

Just before it got cold I gave it a good sanding and a few coats of paint. Berry Pink, or so the can said. It’s a bright bubble-gum pink with a good gloss. I hired an artist to convert some sketches into a cut-able vector graphic.

Unfortunately, it then got cold, very cold. So it’s been sitting, just waiting for me to find time to finish it up.

Perhaps it’s a freaking Christmas miracle but its 65F outside today so we fired up the old vinyl cutter. After an hour of Jess and I trying to pick what and where we carefully applied the paint-mask and taped it up real good. The metal has a nice “rolled” textured surface which made the masking all but impossible and unfortunately a lot of bleed through occurred. When the paint sets I’ll go over all of the lines by hand to clean it up.

Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that I will get another warm weekend for a while and there is a lot of work left to do.

The mane and tail are going to get a coat of sparkly purple paint and then a few coats of clear-coat. Then I have some lights to install inside and we are tossing around the idea of a purple shag “ceiling” just to push it over the top!

What do ya think?

Before anyone asks; I’ve not yet seen the show, but the design here was partly inspired by Eric, Jess’s sister’s son who is a fan and posts a lot of pictures to his facebook.