Day 2 - Cabinet Paint and Patching

After the cabinet was thoroughly cleaned. One major need was to cut some doors for the back as there were no doors originally.  With help from my brother-in-law and a stop to Lowe's, we scored a 3/4" particle board and were able to have it cut to the appropriate size. I painted it black and added hinges to the bottom door.
Here is a picture of the original backing:

A bit dusty and in need of some love. Here is a shot after the particle board was cut and added to the cabinet rear:

Great improvement. I plan to add some 120MM fans as intake and outtake to the boards to provide cooling to the cabinet. The rear of the cabinet was sufficiently masked and painted with a nice a black Matte spray paint. this came out well and gave the cabinet a clean fresh appearance.

One bad section on the cabinet wood was to the right of the monitor, where a big chunk of wood was missing from the right panel.

This was patched with Wood Putty and then spray painted with the black Matte Spray paint.

After it dried I was satisfied as it came out nicely. Some touch-up was then done on the right and left panels and red portions with a cherry red touch-up paint. The only major spots were some gashes in the upper top of the left panel.

The paint I had for the red was too dark. This is ok as it's temporary. In the future I will replace the entire laminate on the panels. 

Overall the paint job went well, and next I can focus on the control panel which needs an overhaul. Fortunately all the screws and bolts are in good conditions, just need to replace paint, overlay, button and sticks.