Ok, well i would love to pop in post updates and say painting all done. sadly i cant. In the rear corner, about 3 or 4 months ago i had a leak. this leak forced me to remove the rear brace. the enclosure was fine and was holding without said brace. that was untill recently. I went down to do all the painting and clean up(final steps before substrate and filters) when i realise the rear had collapsed over 3 feet down. so it took a good bit of work but the rear has a brace and is lifted back up. resiliconing and some painting happend but i got annoyed and i quit. got to do more silicone and a medium amount of painting. sigh, im annoyed now. lol