Preliminary of a Project

I told you a while back Here that I really wanted to build my own thread board.  I told you a couple weeks ago that I'd started it.

And right now is when I show you some preliminary pictures of it.  Nothing fancy--my camera is a basic digital that's about 8 years old.

Pictures!

I was going for a steampunk look because why not?  Even though it's a trifle ridiculous to have a steampunk thread board.  Steampunk!

So I chose a deep red color and a bronze and copper to be my main colors.  I aged the framing by painting it bronze first and letting it dry, then painting it a mid-brown color and quickly wiping off most of it, just giving the bare impression of aged wood grain/stain.  Then I swiped a bit of the copper over it for fun.  :)

The main board was painted the red and then I dry-brushed the copper over it.

And the reason I have these cool looking corners are because I'm terrible at doing frames (never done it before, I'll do better next time I promise!) and my corners didn't match up.  So making a virtue of necessity I followed a friend's advice and added metal bits.  After repainting them in copper.

(see my little terrible gears in the corner?  Aren't they awful?)

And here's a not so good close up of the center of the board

Yes.  That's my hand shadow.  Grr angle of sunlight.  Just concentrate on my lovely swirly paint job.  Yay!

I was hoping to have finished it today but that didn't happen because I was trying to put nails into the board to hang my thread spools on--only the nails didn't want to stay in and kept falling out.  So we go to plan B.

Umm....plan B?  Is there a plan B in the room?

Oh, you sir?  You think that putting screws in would do nicely?  Oh--ah, but I'd need to add bolts to keep them from falling out.  Right.  And if I wanted to have the screw head facing out instead of under the board--oh I see, then I'd need two bolts, one for each side.  Right.

Plan C anyone?