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Stripped it down completely, then payed on a few primer coats. Then did a full couple of layers of white over the whole frame. Once hat was dry, I bought thin tape (you can get it in any width on eBay as they use it when they spray cars to outline designs and tape off boarders etc) and I ran tape in strips along each tube, leaving a gap between strips of the same width as the strip. I then ran loops of tape around the tubes, again, leaving a tape's width between each strip. This then crated the basis. Next I took a scalpel/sharp Stanley knife and cut the squares where the tape met along each side of the square and then used small tweezers to peel off those squares. This left me with a checker pattern of tape. Layed on a few layers of black, waited til it was dry, and then tweezered off the tape, revealing the white underneath and hey presto it was very checkered! And quite cool I think, although it's not for everyone haha! Bit hypnotic! but given that the tape was around 1cm wide, you can imagine how long it took to do! The frame is back in london at the mo but I'll bring it up next time I'm down there, definitely be good to build it up again!