Laptop red paint job completed! COME SEE ! (pictures inside)

[wipeout99]

http://pages.videotron.com/thief/finish.jpg





See the details here (http://pages.videotron.com/thief/index.htm)

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Post your comments on this mod !

[Amarkarian]

hot, did you only do in the inside or did you do the outside cover?

[ghettocomp]

Nice Job. I do see a couple of areas that could use a little touch up though. Wont be hard to do if you spray a little paint into a paper cup, (careful it could blow back on you) and use a model paint brush to carefully paint the bare areas.

[wipeout99]

I only did the inside, since I do not know how resistant the paint is. By painting only the inside, i'm sure that when the laptop is traveling, it won't be damaged :D

If it wasn't of that, I would have painted the entire thing in red ..


I agree that on the front, I need to fix two spots that have missing paint. The tape didn't stick well there, and raised a bit too much

[Slayer2003]

That came out rather nice, and I like the writeup as well! I may have to look into giving my old HP a new look. :santa:

[damarble]

That came out pretty well. Too bad it's a Compaq... j/k

[wipeout99]

That came out pretty well. Too bad it's a Compaq... j/k
I generally don't keep my laptops for very long, I just keep the parts inside and swap them.

if the chassis has to break, then so be it, I'll do it again on another :shrug:

[neonblingbling]

I love it. Red has to be my favorite color, and I think this would be 'my kind of laptop'.

BTW, I notice what seems to be a little orange skin here and there, but nothing too big.

If anything, I'd recomend looking at wetsanding between layers, if you ever plan on truely treasuring a case you paint.

[shellshock]

looks good bro! I was thinking about painting my hp laptop. I hate that ulgy blue/silverish color they use.

and oh yea

:welcome: to Overclockers Forums!!! :cool:

[turkey4550]

Looks pretty good, if my laptop wasn't an acient piece of crap I would probably do something with it.

[wipeout99]

I love it. Red has to be my favorite color, and I think this would be 'my kind of laptop'.

BTW, I notice what seems to be a little orange skin here and there, but nothing too big.

If anything, I'd recomend looking at wetsanding between layers, if you ever plan on truely treasuring a case you paint.


What you actually see if a 16 bits JPEG in action. It gives you the feeling of orange peeling in this picture; the image cannot render many variations of red. Correct me if I interpreted wrong what you said.

Some other people recommended to sand between layers, while I think it is a very good idea, I didn't want to do that because I didn't want a mirror-like finish on the inside. I think finger marks would have been obvious, especially on the palm rests. Having a somehow "blurry" finish forgives well when it's dirty

If I ever paint again, I will definitively try sanding.

[neonblingbling]

What you actually see if a 16 bits JPEG in action. It gives you the feeling of orange peeling in this picture; the image cannot render many variations of red. Correct me if I interpreted wrong what you said.

Some other people recommended to sand between layers, while I think it is a very good idea, I didn't want to do that because I didn't want a mirror-like finish on the inside. I think finger marks would have been obvious, especially on the palm rests. Having a somehow "blurry" finish forgives well when it's dirty

If I ever paint again, I will definitively try sanding.

Could be. The areas I see the 'orange peel' is mostly around the edges, which would have alot of variation in lighting/shadows.

Good point on the not-wanting a mirror finish. Meh, and all the extra work involved...

[goodgod]

nicely done, i'm seriously thinking about doing a complete paint job on my pc this summer :)

[Goshawk]

Awesome job!

Wish i had the guts to do something like that =P I'd be interested in seeing what the whole laptop would look like done up the way you did the inside.


~ Gos

[threeme2189]

not bad...

[Drinkyoghurt]

what paint do you guys use? i want to mod up my case...the only thing modded to it is the fans which i removed the "fence" from..it's a stock modded mid tower and i want to make somethin special...

[~(o)-(0)~]

I redid my presario 2100, btu i re-did it all black because teh previous owner had this thing for hot pink, like barbie pink, so yeah. I used automotive paint, so far I only got one chip.

[iaacp]

looks cool :D

[Mr. Perfect]

what paint do you guys use? i want to mod up my case...the only thing modded to it is the fans which i removed the "fence" from..it's a stock modded mid tower and i want to make somethin special...

I haven't tried it yet, but there's a guide to a fantastic finish here (http://www.mnpctech.com/case-mod-paint-computer-pc-case-mod-how-to.html). All the paints and materials used are listed.