DIY Spraybooth

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Since the move to the new office, I haven't been able to do any painting of models, as I had no way of using either spraycans or my airbrush. IN the previous office the size of the desks meant I could have a fairly ghetto setup with a huge cardboard box that I could spray into. Although I had no extractor, at least the paint (mostly) didn't go everywhere.

There are plenty of (cheap to very expensive) spray booths out there, including a very common one (under £70) that does pretty much everything I want:

However, the problem with this design is that the air is extracted out of the back of the unit. This means that you need quite a sizeable depth of desk to use it on. I don't have that:

I have a maximum of 75cm, front to back, and not a lot of free workspace to have something like that permanently in-place. What I needed to do was to build something like that, but that would fold-down even smaller, and with a top-mounted extractor to leave me without the depth issues whilst it is in use.