Japanese Spitz - Part 3

From the last session we glued the inner frame and left it to dry overnight.

Now we can remove that and take it outside for spray painting.

With that done we can go back inside the workshop (heaters already turned on) and start wiring the doggie lights.

The doggie is large enough to use regular fairy lights.

Warm up the hot glue gun.

The doggie needs to stand off the backboard by about 10mm so we need to glue some spacer blocks on the back before we start wiring him.

With the glass in the frame and the dog placed on top we need a spacer block height that's a couple off mill short of the backboard. That wood strip it to high, the top edge is past the back edge of the backboard.

These blocks are perfect with a 2mm gap between them and the backboard.

Hot glued the blocks onto the back og the doggie.

Now we can start the wiring, simply working around spacing and tacking with hot glue.

Before cutting off the excess length we better do a lighting test.

Dimmed the workshop as best I could and that looks good - continue.

Cut off the excess close to the next LED, later on the wires will be passed through the backboard as the doggie is glued to the backboard.

I can hear rain drops dash outside to bring in the internal frame.

Do a spot check without the glass - looks OK.

Now we need to make another frame, the back frame which is glued to the back of the backboard./

Like the internal frame cut four strips of pine.

Back to the workbench and cut those to length.

After measuring and marking 10mm in from all sides glue on the strips.

Leave to dry with some weight on top.

Back tomorrow...