ok the picture youve been waiting for
the screen back in the cage along with the buttons,
didint realise id built it up so much the buttons sit back a bit. last time i looked i was too shocked by the dimples i never noticed
so what was done
after the dimpling it was sanded back down to the filler and 2 relatively thick coats of fiberglass reason painted on and left to dry ( think this is maybe whats built it up so much ) this was sanded smooth and primed. 2 coats of primer then 2 coats of matt paint left to dry overnight then 1 final coat, after this had a look at it, looking good so far.
then went and thought something genius - clear sealer this would dry hard and prevent the dimpling happening again. the thought was good but not a perfect one, after spraying on the second coat realised that it was gloss and not a matt finish. as the sealer was still wet i chanced it and rubbed it off this left some light smearing so quickly sprayed some matt black on top of it. Worked out quite well as its left it textured.
now got a new problem. VMware doesnt allow you to copy a virtual hard disc to a real one. and active disc manager doesnt recognise virtual or mapped discs, found some software that does allow it however i found some software that does allow you to copy everything - should point out for anybody not computer geeked that the operating system writes a small partition of the disc called the master boot record this store the loading information for the OS. doing a direct copy of the disc by copy and paste doesnt copy this part over so you get boot loading issues in the startup. - however this software is only evaluation and i wasnt willing to pay for the full version so it only copied the main partition and not the MBR
so now i have to go and install it all.
also looking at lowering the RAM down to 512 Mb to help with hibernation and Post times.
1gb ram is also being used in new multimedia monitor in the dining room (carputer project gave me more ideas for a big touchscreen and motherboard on the back of it and ebays a great place for bargains in the recession)