The case looks great. from what you said i'm
thinking that the color is like a camelian color, and it doesn't seem to show up
much in the photos (the color change that is) is this the
case?
I really dig the contrast.
WTG!
p.s. ; Is the SCREEN already made? or do
you just have the template file? And everything on the station (letters)
looks exactly like EMU's rendition. How did you do it!? Even
the arrows are almost identicle....
later
----- Original Message -----From: erik_magrini@...Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:23 AMSubject: Re: [xl7] Re: Finished Product
I'll give some vague info, but I hope eveyone keeps in mind THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRENTY!!!! If you follow this info, do not blame me if it all goes wrong! :)
The first step was to take apart the whole case, took about 5 minutes to get it completely into a pile of pieces. I took a picture (the second one on my website actually) of the case opened beforehand, just in case I needed to see where everything went upon reassembly. The touch strip and LCD display cover are both help on with double sided tape, so they were easy to remove. Then I sanded down the yellow with progressively finer sandpaper until it was ready to paint.
The paint itself was custom mixed colorshifting paint (got it at a body shop), called chromallusion by Dupont. You see it on a lot of cars around where I live. It shifts from blue to purple, and sometimes green too. So I painted over the yellow with a coat of black (needed for the shifting paint to work), and then took a metallic blue and faded that up from the front of the unit toward the back. At this point the whole case looked like it faded from blue to black as you went up the box. Then I applied lots of coats of the color shift, allowing it time to dry inbetween coats. After that I applied a few coats of clear coat, purposely keeping it from being super slick and shiny so I can see it with out a huge amount of glare.
By far the hardest part was doing the LCD display cover. When I was done painting, I realized that the plastic still had yellow and orange writing all over it, and that would just not do! So I tried to use paint thinner to get it off, which sorta worked. Unfortunately the paint from the lettering had some how etched the plastic a bit, so you sould still see the outline of the letters. So, in a last ditch attempt, I taped off the actaul clear part you would look through, as well as the front so I could handle it without fear of scratching. Then I sanded the rest of the paint off,a ndkept at it using a 400grit paper. After way too much time, it was all off and smooth looking, so I used the same blue metallic paint to as the case to do the back of the cover, witht eh clear part still masked off. Then took a black paint marker, and traced out the clear part to make a border. I may still just go to! t! he store and get a piece of 1/16th inch blue plexi cut to the same size, and use that. Not sure if the LCD will still show through.
The next step was to let it all sit for a few days to dry completely, while I undertook the HUGE task of trying to find a place to rescreen the letters back on for me. Took me a lot of phone calls and leg work, and at the very last place I could possibly try, the owner was drummer who took pity on me and my quest. :) It spent a week there getting the screen prepped, and that's it! (BTW, not that the negative is made, I can get more cases done if anyone's interested. Email me off list.)
After that it was just a matter of reassembly, which took about an hour. Over all, it wasn't that hard, but still not something you should attempt unless you're 100% comfortable with all of the steps.
rEalm
Hey, great paint job! Mind if I ask the details of how you pulled it off?
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