Today is a good day...
Today is Thursday the Tenth
Today....

Yesterday was not so good,
Saw Arsenal got beaten in the Chempiang Liga to Barcelona (a fren was a fan)
my father mis-step and scrape the shin on a drain during his morning walk
the gash was deep that require >5 stitches

but somehow got some thing done, yesterday to today.


Found a spot at car park area to set up the paint area, dang the bad camera


this is much better

then the others


finally all painted and left out to dry


suddenly got lazy to wait around downstairs
and pack everything up, thinking they are dried completely,
I couldn't be so wrong.....

Then today brought all the parts to workplace
Ladies and Gents, I introduce to you Mr. Oven


Set at 43 degrees C and bake for ~1 hrs


this is what the part fully dried looks like, after a full night air dry and ~1 Hrs oven curing


a proper checking shows some defects

the bane of "lazy to wait" syndrome


then this is the defect created from improper surface preparations
during the spray, that area seems to have 2 dots not adhering paint, some finger nudging able cover it, but causes the uneveness there after

anyway, that was the first coat, so intention to sand out imperfection and respray is cemented.

so, back to the topic, it was

great planning bro...

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE...


one part of my life is done
and without further ado, the results


The first part of the assembly, the lcd panel


The lid side of the LCD panel. The Asus logo effect is not what I have expected, but it will do for now (mental note to self, find some flat red LEDs, take time to disassemble the god damn netbook again, solder the god damn led and get some better light show.)


this is in total darkness ...


the same place with Flash (thought about the Flash joke, but suddenly remembered being lazy )








^ this is with a silicon keyboard skin with Dvorak-keyboard sticker on it.

I intentionally left out some parts to be of original white
- the battery, the touchpad, the screw plugs

Heck I might as well call this small bump on the road
PANDA Net-Bee

As for the original Anti Est. project, well it will continue from now on.
When it will finish is yet to be seen

At least my trial test with spraying is a success on its own ight, this make me more confident in tackling the big daddy

Gambateh!!!!

HECK keep getting derailed from the ori mod by small small project here and there

Her is a simple do up on my mouse
The colour suits the PANDA Net-Bee fine but it's starting to show its age

Here is the mouse

initially it is a naise mouse, compact on storage, laser type that even works on my tummy!!

then the bottom half is of the soft touch plastics (most prolly a thin PU layer) Good to touch but one heck of a dirt/ink catcher




these pics shows the ori layer, the diirrtthhy looking stuff, and the new surface scrapped of the stuff and sand down with 400grit sandpaper

can either go repaint it or just leave it as it is
which is not bad actually

any thoughts?

Now if i can focus, the original project would have finished by now
Dangnamit!!! FOCUS!!!!!!

*hmmm... doesn't the Dell 24 incher need a sprucing up...*
zzzzzz

very weird looking mouse lolz!~
nice paint job done on a laptop xD
i might do the same after few more years maybe since my laptop now is 4 years old..

4 y.o. + few more year = ????
4 month izzit?

The mouse is a microsoft Arc mouse
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&...=utf-8&oe=utf-8

in a way, removing the soft touch layer clean up the looks but at the same time cheapens it as well

hmmm talking to you gave me some ideas

Thanks man,

Oh man, another deviation from the main project
any way, this should be a simple mod

Hint: Orcinus Orca

u're gonna mod a killer whale onto ur mouse? lolz..
hm well my laptop is 4 years old...no mistake haha..
just that it still looks new thus perhaps after a few more years only i might recolour it...maybe

Damn it!!!
Damn the Van Winkle Pharmacy, giving me some drink medicine....

anyway...
some little updates on the original build

3 months past since the last post, seems like a dream, a new P67 FatBoi, 16GB DDR3 Corsair-V, i7 2600k dream. Really cant get enough of it. So after some 2-3 month of dilly-dallying, got down to do some forward motion on the case mod/rebuild

cut some acrylics (or PMMA, clearer than PC, but less strength)


how'd I cut it? some penknife and this

which used to be a screwdriver but lost the wooden handle. The tip got some hammering, and with some miner filing, a DIY score


for me, knives tend to bury deep in the channel created, thus jamming the tips most of the time. With this, the V-shaped tip scrape away layer by layer deeper, enabling me to score deeper before bend-crack it (had a history of bad bend-crack with shallow knife score)

some other pics



mis-calculated and loop off a part that isn't supposed to..
Ah, well. Acrylics is really versatile, will find a way to mend it later


the next day brought out the wain artillery. Remember the DIY heat-strip back then? Well it is being put to good use NAO!


not the best big-radius bend (for that would need at least another heat-strip)




this is the wrongly looped off piece. The looped off piece should be creating a U-shaped at the wider side, as a HDD holder. Ah, well maybe it's for the best. The brain have been cranking on way to mediate the error, but than is in the future.

there is another 2 pic failed to be upload to photobucket while at home, and the company firewall block uploading.... any altenative recommendations?

no more update anymore bro? interested to see what u have done with the case mod

Updates coming up
Gonna make a new thread

The pheonix arrises!!!