Finally finished the door cards! (Well sort of....)

Right, the epic door card post!

We started off with blanks, bought from the Vanfest, for £25 a pair.  They are predrilled MDF.

This is a blank, with the clips from the old door card already clipped in.  They were a bit of a nightmare, to be honest.  The clips were fairly new, showing that Brian has had some work done before.  His original door cards were a beige vinyl, and are fine, just Not For Us.

So anyway, back to the "What We Did."

We put the clips in, then covered each clip with a square of folded over masking tape.  This was to stop the papers sticking to the clips.  The second time we didn't do it, and I'm pretty sure we regret that now!

We then went over the masking tape with fabric tape.  On the second one, we went over the clips with just a strip of masking tape.  The jury is still out on which one is the best.

Then the cutting began.  We had sourced a whole load of comics from eBay, all Dandy or Beano, and the whole family got involved with cutting out the individual cells from the comic strips.  We weren't fussed on size or shape, for obvious reasons - they were all getting over laid anyway!

We laid them all out to see if we had enough.  We didn't bother doing this with the second one as we could tell we had enough.  With the first one though, we just wanted to be sure, so that we didn't get halfway across the board, and just not have enough!

We stuck them all down.  We used 2/3 PVA to 1/3 water, and then dolloped a little bit more glue in, just to make sure.

Once we'd stuck them all down, we put 2 coats of PVA over the top to seal them and to put a bit of shine over the top.  Same proportions as before.

Then we fitted them to the door.  Immediately, we knew we'd done the right thing!

Obviously, we then had to repeat almost everything, in order to put one on both sides!   This side is the drivers side.

And here it is finished!  Each one takes about 3 nights, we've decided.

We have had to do some trimming, because the window winders wouldn't slip straight on.  Unfortunately, we had to Dremel Dennis the Menace's head a bit, but he won't mind.  However, the window winder for this side wouldn't just slip on, so is at a mates house to be reamed out a millimetre or so.

One of the favourite sections for the boy!

The passenger side winder hole also needed Dremelling out a bit, and then fitted straight on without any hassle.

Now there's just the sliding door card to go.  The Man is already cutting out, and I must join him.  Laters people!