[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Robert Bergeron

Here i am playing with Masonite for the shelves . Q : White side up or down or in other words the brown side up ? How about the one facing forward acting as a door to the lowest compartment ? In aviation we say : Keep the blue side up and the brown side down ..

Brown side up (sorry pilots) and not painted white if the HUW is any indication. The outside face of the lower vertical (is it not sheet metal?) appears white in original surviving examples.