Making the best out of a bad situation

In addition to a spray booth and respirator I use a box vent to ventilate the room I paint in (yes I take it seriously and you should too if you paint! Those fumes are bad news!). Unfortunately the fan fell out of the window today and one of the blades broke off. 

While I'll have to buy another box fan to ventilate the room I discovered that the safety grating on the box fan makes a marvelous part holder for painting! Having already abandoned the old chunk of Styrofoam I had been using this seems like a perfect replacement. 

although this isn't going to be the final configuration it's a good start!