Customized gear thread (Page 13 of 76)

Timbob wrote:

I got a few questions about how I did those gameboys.
so:

I used Montana paint. From the mtn '94 range.
http://www.mtncolors.com/products/56-94

These are pretty bright coloured paints with a matte finish. Since the gameboy is painted from the inside, it's still smooth. I like these paints because they seem to stick on pretty much everything, but it's whatever paint you like best I guess.
I sprayed maybe 2 layers of colour first, and finished of with a clear coat, to prevent scratching when assembling the gameboy again.

I don't have a lot of under construction pics, sorry. But basically, what I did, was first start with taping the complete outside of the dmg (which is a bitch to do, but take your time, because it's easier then having to clean the outside later on.)

then I lay both halves down, and cover the bottom part with just a piece of paper. spraying basically just the top, and creating a gradient from blue to nothing.

the thing with painting from the inside is, you can't redo something when you went to far. If it was a normal gameboy painted from the outside, you could just paint it all blue, and layer the green on it later..

once you have one colour on, you can paint the bottom. If the first gradient is ok, you can basically just fill the rest.
One tip I can give, is to make the front part of the tape easy to peal. so you can check halfway if everything is covered. (screwholes and parts behind bits of upstanding plastic are hard to reach sometimes.)

Anyway, most of it is just knowing how to handle a spraycan. Long strokes from left to right, always start and stop spraying away from your subject. (to avoid drips)

You could practice with plastic containers for example.

that's about all I can think of right now

I must say those are two of the most gorgeous DMGs I've ever seen. I have a serious obsession with gradients so that kinda blew my mind!

I've got a clear case as well with an inverted pink backlight that I was thinking about splatter painting but I wasn't sure if I'd like the outcome or not, but now that I've seen yours I wanna do a light pink to light blue gradient to accent with the backlight. I really hope you don't mind me biting off your idea a little bit!

a more classic dmg for my collection:

Lavar wrote:

I'm going to try to do one like this too, but with a blue or teal backlight. Also, how did you get those dark grey start/select buttons?

Hey..
I have like tons of those buttons lying around. they are used in playitloud gameboys (clear, green, yellow, blue, etc.) that was a kind of special edition in the early years of the gameboy. they also have a dark grey screen protector (i dont like the light grey protectors at all).
yeah blue / teal will be nice, but i will install the teal backlight in my other project soon, so i just messed around with the orange one.
good luck!