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Timbob wrote:

A set of DMG's I did for a buddy.

Two transparent cases painted from the inside in a nice 80's gradient colour style thing.
Matching schemes and everything. the blue/magenta one might get green buttons, but that's up to him

with matching EMS carts of course.
and backlight + pro-sound.

Both screens also have a custom Data loss logo behind the pixels. It's best seen when the nintendo logo comes on. Photo's are a bit fuzzy tho.
In lsdj, it's more on the background.

Wait, WAT?

This is osm mate, osm. I would try it on my own clearboy but I suck at electronics so dont get surprised if I ask you about commisions pricing on private.. teehee

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!

I use gold alot and its powder coat and i tried spraying inside out with it and it was extremely difficult to get it in all the cracks and crevices.So i was just wondering about this as maybe an alternative to what i use now. Thanks

i think the conclusion last time this came up is that big bang is a show about nerds,

and community is a show for nerds.