My DIY Obs refurbishment

[lukebl]

Hi all,

Some of you might recall my posting of a couple of years ago, regarding my conversion of our unloved and unused childrens playhouse into an observatory. Well it's performed really well, but today I realised it was looking a bit shabby, and the colour scheme never did look right for an obs. So I did a makeover, and here's the result. Much neater.

This morning:

2 hours later:

And the beauty parade. In the obs: 250PDS Newtonian on NEQ6 pier. In front, from l to r: 200P Newtonian, 90mm Mak, ST80, TAL100RS PST mod.

[nightfisher]

nice job luke, the 250p ds looks a beast, got the obligatory cat in shot

[Steve Ward]

Just as it's spraying the 200 . . .

[Gina]

Nice paint job

[tferrari]

It's amazing what a couple hours can do to polish something like that up. Your equipment suddenly feels like it gets to ride in the hottest looking obsy on the block.

[lukebl]

Thanks, folks. No, the cat wasn't spraying on the 200P!

[alan g]

Looks great but do you have to crawl through that tiny door ?

[JamesF]

I remember seeing your posts about this some time back. Looks very smart now

James

[Bizibilder]

Looks very smart - what did you paint it with?

[lukebl]

1369561996[/url'>' post='1945402']

Looks very smart - what did you paint it with?

Ronseal Woodland Colours 'White Ash'. About 3 coats.

[Bizibilder]

Thank you Luke - useful information for the future.

[laser_jock99]

Cunning. Disguise your obsy as a kids play house with a leaky roof, no burglar would look in there!

[lukebl]

Cunning. Disguise your obsy as a kids play house with a leaky roof, no burglar would look in there!

Nope. This is Norfolk. No burglars round here. Famous last words.

[Daniel-K]

Just a thought wouldn't it be better cutting that top t&g section ans putting a hinge on it you dont need to duck in the door?

[Tinker1947]

Very nicely done, and yes, the crime rate is very very low......