This weekend's work on the bunk bed planets consists of filling in the wood grain of the plywood cutouts to make smoother surfaces for painting.
This is done by applying several coats of thinned carpenter's wood filler and sanding in between coats.
Here are all of the planets just after the second coat has been brushed on:
It will likely take a third coat before the grain is adequately filled in. Sanded high-grade birch plywood has pretty decent original surfaces to begin with and thus don't require too much prep work to achieve smooth results.
I bet you are wondering what that strange semi-circular piece is doing among the planet cutouts.
That will be revealed in due time.
Stay tuned ...
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