I've kept plugging away on getting the spray space in better shape for shooting the body. Previously I had four sheets of visqueen clear plastic overlapped in a curtain that was minimally OK to segregate the front of the barn for painting. With the "folding wall" I still needed to close in the roof, spanning from the structural truss that I had covered with plastic earlier. My initial thought was to just use the curtain, but the more I looked at it the less I liked that idea.

As I looked at the span it was apparent that a panel 30' long was not going to work. But then looking at the need to open the wall partially to move things into and out of the spray area led me to three panels, nominal 10' each, and that's what I did. Each of the roof panels is hinged at the truss and can be raised about two feet to allow the wall to fold into the outer wall. The center panel raised will allow the two center wall sections to fold, giving me a 10'wide access way back & forth. I still need to secure some "fillers" at the wall ends against the barn siding to block air flow, and to get the pulleys in place to raise each of the three shed roof panels, but it's nearly there!!

View from inside the booth:
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View from the shop side, looking to the booth:
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View from inside, showing the truss closed off from the rest of the barn:
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Other than sealing some gaps I need to expend my 220V circuit up to the booth area to power the furnace blower, and mount the blower to a filler panel that fits beneath the rolling doors. I also have three or four florescent fixtures that I may hang on the walls for more light. Then it's clean, clean, clean using the pressure washer to blow away cobwebs and dust bunnies; do some final rough up sanding on the passenger side, then get ready to shoot a couple of coats of primer.

May get this thing done despite myself