My Spray Booth Plan

This is my basic design for my spray desk that I plan to build. I have already change the design a little bit already making it a little smaller. So far I have only design it on the computer, so I have an idea what it is going to look like and have not started building it yet. The size I plan to build this spray booth is around L2', W1'6", H4'. For the design of this, I plan on making it mostly of wood, and plan on using cardboard for the sides as you can see in my picture to the right. For the air filter, I plan on using a bathroom fan attach to the back of the booth, which is the back wall hole shown in the picture. I then plan to attach a dryer hose to the fan, which will leaded out my bedroom window for the paint fumes to get out. I don't plan on putting on a top bathroom fan right away like I have shown in the picture, which will be a later upgrade. This is my basic plan, which may change as I start building this. Here are some more pics of my booth.

Update: August 29
Here is another update for my spray booth. I have made some changes to the overall design of my booth plan. One of the changes that I made was that I took out the top fan and made the back fan look more like a bathroom fan, then a hole and pipe that I had before. I also added on the dryer tube to the back which now points up to the sky. The biggest change that I made was that I added places to put paints, modeling tools, and so on. Here are some new pics of my updated booth.



Update: September, 6/08
I no longer need to build my spray booth from scratch anymore, as I found a easier and cheaper way now. There is this old desk that has been sitting in one of the rooms just collecting dust and is mostly covered in junk right now. It is a nice desk and needs very little work on it. The only problem with it is that the supports that hold it up are very weak and moving the desk too much will make it break apart, which is a simple fix. Other then that all I need to do is add the bathroom fan to it and some other things and it will be all done. The nice thing about using this desk into a spray booth is that it looks very nice (nicer then anything I could build), and has lots of room for other things like paint, tools and etc. Will add pictures when I move every thing off and move it into my room.

Update: September, 23/08
Funny how things change as you get going. My first plan was to build my spray booth from scratch, but then I found this old desk that was going to become my spray booth and now......... haha funny how it turned out. My friend first word was "Wow, I didn't think you could become any cheaper". My spray booth now is just a box with a bathroom fan on the back with a metal tube going out the window. The reason why I did this is that for one I am pretty cheap, two, it is easy to move and if I every need to switch the box for something it is super easy. Overall I am very happy how it turned out.

The Front View of my Spray Booth

The inside of my Spray Booth

The metal tube going out side the window

My Robot's Skeleton Frame

This is my robot that I design on the computer. This model is my robot's skeleton frame, which I still have to make the outer armor for it. It took me around 1 week to make, which I added a few updates to its design after it was done. My goal was to make this robot as human-like as possible, making it able to move any way a human can, which I think I did a pretty good job with that. The hardest thing to design was by far the thumb. The problem with the thumb is that a human thumb can move is so many different directions that it was the hardest piece to design, but after a couple of tries, I finally came up which a design that I was happy with. Another problem was that by the time I got to the head, it took a awhile to move objects around or render stuff because of all the different stuff that had to be process at once, and that my computer isn't made for stuff like this. So I end up making the head and the hands on separate files and porting them back to the main file when they were finish. The problem I had with that was when I ported the hands back, they were a little to small, so I had to make them bigger, which kinda give my robot a weird look to it. When I had finish my robot's skeleton frame, I decided to update it's feet to give them a more realistic and nicer feel to them. Now all that I have to do is complete the outer armor and I will be all done with this model.