Probably a stupid post but what is the best way to paint a gameboy? A friend of mine recommended plasti dip but I want to know what you guys recommended.
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KC
hell no don't use plasti-dip!
that's not paint anyway
use the same rules that you would apply to anything else you paint.
it might be good to try on some other things before you potentially ruin a shell too.
airbrush is the best.
spray cans next just need to be more attentive to what you are doing with spray cans.
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San Diego
Thretris had a good post about this as well.
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/161/p … ring-text/
and then there was this one.
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/7433/ … rnal-coat/
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West Palm Beach, FL
Sand it with a light/medium grade sandpaper and then proceed to paint it using spray paint that will bond with plastic and then seal it. Tada!
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Portland, ME
Vinyl paint is great. It bonds with the plastic, and dries nice and flat if you do light coats. You can find it at Autozone.
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Chicago
radionarcotix wrote:
Vinyl paint is great. It bonds with the plastic, and dries nice and flat if you do light coats. You can find it at Autozone.
I highly recommend this over spray paint.
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Philadelphia
I've used spray paint on a couple of mine and haven't had too many problems. Half of them though have been sprayed on the inside.
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KC
don't sand the shell! unless you intend to remove text or there is some serious scrapes & scratches. but in that case you probably shouldn't be painting that shell anyway.
make sure to soak the dissasembled shell in warm to hot soapy water to clean it real well & let dry completely.
this video is pretty good
http://youtu.be/971D5d28UFE
I never thought about using a cup of warm water to heat the can for smoothness, that's a good trick.
You don't need to do the pre sanding, I wouldn't do it on the dmg case but thats just me.