How to paint your drive face-plates

wolfman · Oct 3, 2002

I used vinyl car interior dye spray paint but seemed to glossy for the IDE drive bezels and trays. The outside is flatblack. Do you think its not good to use flat paint? Because of the dust it can make? The drives look like **** the vinyl dye was glossy.

zabomb4163 · Nov 30, 2002

what about painting floppy (i'm cheap, lol)

whiteemcee · Dec 3, 2002

WOW thanks for this artice it is great painted all my drive face plates to match my blue chieftec case looks 100 times better!! great post!!!

Cown · Dec 3, 2002

whiteemcee said:
WOW thanks for this artice it is great painted all my drive face plates to match my blue chieftec case looks 100 times better!! great post!!!

You're welcome

ChillPhatCat · Dec 12, 2002

zabomb4163 said:
what about painting floppy (i'm cheap, lol)

Yep been there done that, my sister had me build her a computer and she wanted it to be all black. I had to come up with a comp for $600 w/ monitor so I could prove to her that she was better off than buying a Dell. I painted the bezel of the floppy drive jet black with car enamel... I left the door and button beige and it looks bad ***. Just make sure you pop out the little clear plastic cover for the LED... don't want to paint that!

LOL I did manage to take down the 48x Creative CD ROM trying to dissasemble it for painting, it was 3 years old though and had faded to a **** yellow sort of color. So to my credit I haven't blown any mobos or chips, but I have completely wrecked a CD ROM.

FYI - Complete computer $580:
17" NEC monitor
Athlon 1600+ XP Tt Volcano 6Cu
256 Mb Crucial 2100 (runs at 175, but don't tell her

)
Abit KG 20 Mobo
Radeon 7500 64Mb DDR
20 Gig WD 7200 RPM ATA100
16x12x32 CD-R
Black case, 7 fans total

The VTech · Dec 25, 2002

What about color matching? How does one go about finding the paint and then making SURE it is the same color as the case???

Great guide Crown thanks for posting it.

MoonWolf · Dec 25, 2002

Great guide, Cown. Very detailed and coherent. I think I will make one of my own for those of us who have airbrushes (me). I will finish modding my case as soon as I get back home (currently vacationing in colorado). I just don't know... I have two blue CCFLs... Should I make my case metallic blue or a glossy black with a blue trim?

-Wesley

Dancing_Priest · Jan 1, 2003

cheers for the guide , it'll add a real touch of class to my setup

Da_Beeblebrox · Jan 7, 2003

Sweet, when I find the time ill defanetly do this for all my face plates. I've been using black Sharpy's to paint the face plates on my cdrom drives and it works surprisingly well if you put enough ink on, though one of these days ill use real paint...

wilhelm310 · Jan 7, 2003

OMG its like a mirror lol im gonna try this on my car hehe

alinosa · Jan 14, 2003

great guide cown. i forewent the primer and sanding to retain the texture on the faceplates for my floppy and cd-r drive. FYI: testors model spray paint works great because it coats thin with good color coverage. and... 1246 (silver) matches the silver color on chieftec cases to a tee. my drives look like they were painted by chieftec.

RA3Skywarrior · Apr 20, 2003

New Product

Krylon came out with a new spray paint which "bonds" to plastic with no priming and sanding, you just need a cleaning and then spray it on, thats it, so they say. It looks interesting and it comes in a relatively good selection of colors, I would like to know if any has used it.

Thanks

Kryon Fusion Spray Paint
http://www.krylon.com/product/gp_product_detail.asp?sgID=GP07

Fred Koser · May 12, 2003

I just did my Model M with it.

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=194913

MicrosoftMaster · May 13, 2003

i've pinted my case, and i found that using ordionary vaseline with a Q-Tip swabed carefully works WONDERS if u are wanting to keep the label, when your dun painting the case or drive, simply take damp paper towel and wipe it off!! =)

Daven · May 26, 2003

Good article, let me know what i was doing wrong

roYal · Jun 10, 2003

what kind of paint do you guys suggest using to match my bezels to the exact color of the silver chieftec case?

tio · Jun 20, 2003

alinosa said:
FYI: testors model spray paint works great because it coats thin with good color coverage. and... 1246 (silver) matches the silver color on chieftec cases to a tee. my drives look like they were painted by chieftec.

Venturanova1 · Aug 25, 2003

great article jsut painted all my drives and my floppy they finally match...

Kitler · Sep 4, 2003

TY ao much i painted myin to match blue my camo antec case

hawtrawkr · Nov 22, 2003

excellent article and links helped me get some of my older cases back to a usable state

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