I'm painting an old computer to fit into my living room. The amp and TV have a brushed metal finish, and I want to try recreating that look on my PC casing.

Is it feasible?

Very easy oni. 1st remove the paint until u haf a bare metal panel. Then get a sanding block n sand in straight lines until u get the brushed metal look. Then spray a few layers of clear coat on it to prevent corrosion.

Hah! Does that mean that I don't have to spraypaint it at all?

U still need to spray paint. Just that it's clear coat paint. Or else the brushed metal look is gonna be rusted metal look soonz.

i've tried that with sand paper, but the effect wouldnt be as nice as those ready made ones.

Can 1. The oni diff is that the factory finish is done using machine to get those perfect straight lines. Wat we can do to replicate that is to use a L pipe, put it on top of the panel n sand in perfect straight lines. Oni thing we cant replicate is of course the anodised finish of the brushed alu panels.

*take toothbrush n brush steel plat with Colgate*

what does that what andadodise anodise adonis whatever term means?

This post has been edited by Acey: Mar 10 2006, 10:03 PM

Oh, I realize that this casing is made of plastic. No can do.

I just had a hand at the silver spraypaint. What do you reckon is nicer, a smooth silver finish or a textured finish?



That's how it looks like so far. How do I keep the prevent the paint from coming out? It's been drying for a few hours, yet some paint stuck to my hands when I picked it up.

This pic shows what it looks like before. Beige. Apologies for the mess, and argh.. I wish the projector's mine.

This post has been edited by wKkaY: Mar 10 2006, 11:18 PM

Anodizing is a special treatment that they do for alu to gif it that nice color, u know hte nice looking alu blue, red, green? It also comes in clear color meaning looks just like bare alu. It's like paint that protects metal.




The spray paint shud be touch dry within 10 minutes actually. If it still comes off after few hours means u oversprayed oredi. The pic of ure beige casing cant c nothing. Only can c the projector screen.

This post has been edited by ianho: Mar 11 2006, 12:11 AM

oooooooooooooooo... can get it in hardware shops / hypermarkets?

erm, i felt that the quality is far from the factory ones. because by using sand paper, we cannot get consistent depth of the line and parallel lines.

and if you really observe well, the surface besides the lines are still in mirror finishing, but if we use sand paper, the whole place becomes blur


anodizing means electolysis dude.
not as simple as spraying

Can get a similar look to anodized alu. After sanding the metal to brushed look, spray paint the clear blue or clear red paint. Then it looks like anodized brushed alu but then it's glossy instead of matt.

oooooooo.... not bad not bad... but now don dare to try yet... wanna pro @ acryl first...

i tumpang ur topic i also wanna ask

Chromium plate it
like my previous mod.

that's expensive..& hard work too

chrome is not that hard....

just need to get the right combination

nolah. it costed me about RM80 to chromium plate my top, and side panels. this way back, more than 3 years ago.