Extreme customisation Laptop painting!

galwaydude18

Just came across this in the tweaking / modding fourm!Who here has the balls to do this? http://spiike.shadowdragon.net/laptop%20painting.htm Its a class idea! I bet dubdvd would be made enought to do it if he hasnt done so already!

Nukem

That would seem about right for Dub -LOL-

galwaydude18

Ya just PMd him there to see if has paid a visit to this fourm yet! He would defo do it I reckon!

PowerHouseDan

That is Fuking cool. wonder how much he'd charge?

dearg_doom

I saw an article that looks suspiciously like that site a few months back.

I'd love to try it, but I'm too much of a pussy and my laptop is an Aldi one, so it's plastic. Which probably isn't the easiest to spraypaint.

jesus_thats_gre

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=236837

I feel dirty

Capt'n Midnight

Remember the paint does not cure for 3 months

not a quick mod.

dubdvd

someone call in the thread police lol
it's one nice paint job ...but so much can go wrong when your pulling apart your laptop .....i'd give it a try on some 300mhz laptop to see how it goes but you would want to be handy with a spary paint ....better not let the missus see this she is chasing me for a PINK LAPTOP .... :eek:

galwaydude18

ah god that would be so funny to see! A pink laptop! I laughed as soon as I read that! Do you think you will try it on some crappy laptop?

dubdvd

galwaydude18 wrote:

ah god that would be so funny to see! A pink laptop! I laughed as soon as I read that! Do you think you will try it on some crappy laptop?

Heres what gave her the idea .....Who ever said women can't mod...
this is really ott
http://www.exonome.com/fj/phkl/

and of course apple never miss a trick when it comes to style
http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/shinyshiny/2004/04/iwant_ibook.html

galwaydude18

OMG what a made piece of work (ahem art!) is that! That absolutly insane!

dubdvd

There every where
http://www.ioffer.com/i/Pink-Laptop-Brand-New-P4-M-processor-15-screen-WinXP-5860244

galwaydude18

jesus whats the world coming to? PINK laptops! what will they think of next! They are quiet funny to look at though!

dubdvd

Isnt it depressing the price of laptop batteries
here is an idea
http://www.schou.dk/linux/laptop/

Nukem

dubdvd wrote:

Isnt it depressing the price of laptop batteries
here is an idea
http://www.schou.dk/linux/laptop/

Laptop Modding/Tweaking Forum??????? *Chuckle* *chuckle*
Could happen

galwaydude18

Ya it fcukn damn depressing allright! See my thread about my laptop! It's interesting reading! Anyhow I read some where before that if you send your printer off to repaired by HP and take your inks before they collect it that it will come back with brand new inks fitted! I'm trying that idea with my battery! I'v it taken out and hopefully it will come back with a new battery! worth a try any how!

galwaydude18

Nukem wrote:

Laptop Modding/Tweaking Forum??????? *Chuckle* *chuckle*
Could happen

U'd never know what could happen yet! Better not push our luck yet with cloud or devore! They might get angry with us for being so pushy! :eek:

NotMe

Ah this reminds me of the paint job I did on my PS1 years ago. I painted it black with flames.

galwaydude18

have you any pics that you could show us here?

Nukem

galwaydude18 wrote:

U'd never know what could happen yet! Better not push our luck yet with cloud or devore! They might get angry with us for being so pushy! :eek:

LOL - ya guess your right

NotMe

Afraid not. It's long dead and it got scratched to bits. Painting the controllers was never a good idea.

galwaydude18

ah well! it would have been nice to see some pics!

kdouglas

hmmm..... anyone have experience with spray painting? care to offer advice?

i really want to try this on my laptop, but im worried about how long the paint takes to cure properly and it getting scratched?
any advice on getting spray paint to cure on plastic quickly and properly?

might give this a go on an old laptop first though, dont wanna ruin my work horse.

Tar.Aldarion

i could barely work up the courage to scrape all the paint off my usb key(its clear so you can see the circuit now How Cool )
good to know you have the balls to do it to a laptop :P

quarryman

i opened my laptop to put a new hard drive in the other day and had 3 screws leftover that didn't seem to go back anywhere.

no, i don't think i'll be trying this mod.

rivird

Heres a hint for keeping all your screws togethor (I do professional laptop repair and modding, and this is what I do)

1. Grab a big 'ol cardboard box
2. Cut it up into about 5 or 6 peices the size of your laptop.
3. As you go along, draw outlines of your laptop and mark screwholes. Just shove the screws into the cardboard- this will keep you from losing them as well.
4. Put the part on top of the cardboard/screws when youve removed it
5. Number the cardboard as 'layers' so you can remember what is where.


It's a simple an easy trick, doesnt take long, and is definetly worth it. I can post pics of this is you want.

case_sensitive

I painted my inspiron 8100 a while back, with metallic flecked paint, looked kewl.
Took about 2 hours to mask off the stuff I didn't want to paint.
I didn't bother sanding down the original paint job, as I wasn't sure if I was going to like the new blue colour.

Problems/suggestions:
The paint takes hours to dry, about 8 hours per coat, and in this time *everything* sticks to it. I have 3 dogs, go figure, 3rd and 4th coats were mostly to fill in the holes where I'd to pull off a hair. Do it in a clean room.
Test the paint you're going to use on a small area first, or better yet, read about someone else who did it, and use the same paint/primer. I went through 3 or 4 kinds of paint before I got one that looked good.
Take the plunge and scrub the existing paint off, them prime it, and find a decent fixative. I didn't, and my paint job last about 3 months before I could see the original paint around the palmrests. Don't want to think what it did to my sleeves..

Oh, I did a desktop too, in black and red, monitor in blue (still have it in my attic somewhere..)that worked better because you almost never touch them.

It was a lot of fun, but they were both old enough that I didn't mind too much fecking them up. Prepare better than I did, and enjoy!