Professional and Collaborative Practice - Maidstone

Date - Monday 27th March
Hours in - 9:35a.m. - 5:20p.m. (7hrs45mins total)
Job - Maker

9:35a.m.
Met with team and discussed jobs for the day, including, priming flats, fixing over hang around flats, finishing game spinner, trophy, marking out and cutting podiums.

10:20a.m.
We started by priming the flats, with white emulsion, using rollers to give an even finish, I found that it needed a few coats to give a better coverage.

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After this me and a fellow student went around and marked the base of each board so that we knew which way around they needed to stand.

After we went and had a strip cut that would fill a gap at the base of one of the boards, as the flat front was just not big enough to cover the frame. 

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After this a couple of us met and discussed what to do with the overhang around the flats, originally we were going to cut the overhang off, however as the frames themselves aren't square whilst the face of the flat is we instead decided to pack the overhang to give a surface that will meet to attach together, for this me and another student took lengths of different thickness MDF and cut them to size on a band saw, using these thickness's in various places on different boards depending on the size of overhang.

(The overhang problem)

(cutting the packing)

1p.m.
After this we glued them to the boards with gorilla glue, before using a clamp to hold them in place whilst they dried. As we only had 4 clamps we had to let some dry before moving on to another board and row of packing.

Whilst waiting for them to dry we started priming the sliders for the tall board, using the same white emulsion (both sides needed to be primed and so whilst waiting for this to dry we went back and forth between priming boards and gluing on the packing)

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3p.m.
We went to the computer room and printed out numbers for the spinner game, to use as a template to cut out of mount board. once printed we applied the paper to the mount board with spray mount.

Using a scalpel we cut out the numbers carefully, before sanding down the edges gently to give a smoother look, we also tried to peel off the paper, however found that it was too well stuck and so instead peeled off the first layer of paper carefully, and sanded down the fluffy layer beneath.

We then sprayed the numbers black, and left them to dry for a while, once dried using a black sharpie I coloured the white edges black.

I left these to dry for a little while longer, and helped to prime the stand for the sliding doors, helping to paint the hard to reach places, as well as the joints between the back stand and the board itself.

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After this I glued on the numbers to the board carefully letting them dry for a few minutes.

Before moving on to glue on the back stands for the game spinner, before leaving these to dry overnight.