Hi Guys,

I've been wanting to spray paint a bit of my (spare) casing for quite a while now, and didn't dare too until I came across the case modding part of the Low Yat forum, which I find very friendly.

So anyways, Just thought I'd post a couple of pictures of the side panel that I painted over the weekend. Finished the logo last night, as I had to wait for the paint to dry in between. All in all, I think I did a rather good job, as I've never done this before, so I'm totally n00b, hahah.

I'm hoping for some comments, good or bad are welcome too, as I'm hoping to do this more often when I'm free. Currently I'm only doing on side, as I haven't decided what to paint on the other side yet. I don't plan to have each side to have anything in common, I'll probably just paint whatever I feel like. So I'll probably just spray paint it when I think of something.

Anyways, I don't think I wanna make this too long, I'll give more comments later (I'm at work anyways, hehe).

Nice to be here!
Kinson

After sanding down the side panel

This post has been edited by kinson77: Aug 26 2008, 11:07 PM


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huhu now got casing 'bagman'

Actually, I couldn't think of what logo to use...initially tried to use the spiderman logo, but after I started cutting, felt too hard for me to start off with, so I went to look for something easier, and since my Crumpler pouch as lying around, I used that My mom said it was more "you/me" anyways, so it worked out well

I'm just wondering if there are easier materials to use to create a stencil. Using cardboard was ok to cut, but I think it was hard to keep it "pressed down" when painting, even though I put tape under it, hehe.



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Try putting some weights on the top instead of using tape to tape it down

Yeah, I should try that in the future. It was at night, and I was lazy to go look for rocks in the garden. My fault I should have, cause it'd give my parents a couple of blue colored rocks in the garden, lol.

Thanks for the feedback!

That's the thing about modding. You gotta get off your arse to do it.
Anyways, good luck in your mod.

U spray at night?

Err, yeah. Cause I get back from work around 9-10pm. Then later gotta do some work online, so in between I sneak out and spray a layer or two of paint. I left the stand fan on to blow it though...is it bad to spray at night? Aside from it drying slowly?

I hate dog hairs...they were all over my kitchen

its more nicer if u spray it when its really hot day bro..

Oooo, hehehe. N00b I should plan better in the future. Woke up at 1230pm on Sunday, and most of the hardware stores were closing liao, so I had to rush, hehe. The blue wasn't my first choice, but there weren't too many bright colors left But the time I planned, this and that, was a little later liao, some more heavy rain. Patience isn't a strong point of mine

Thanks for the comments. Happy to hear any and more that come

Cheers,
Kinson

Wow dude,you really sanded off the paint from the panel.

@OCZ:

Yah. I used 2 different grits..not sure which is which. The dude initially sold me one that said 600 at the back, but that was too fine, so another shop told me to start off with what was 130 at the back, then I finished it off with the 600. Not sure if I was supposed to sand it all off, but since it was my first try, figured I should, hehe.

Can I normally just paint over the original color/paint?

It just occured to me that I should have painted the OTHER side of my casing...then I could cut a window into this panel..owells, hindsight, hehe.

Cheers,
Kinson

This post has been edited by kinson77: Aug 26 2008, 10:31 PM

You must be in a really great mood to sand all that.
Try smoothen all the panel 1st by using 1000 and 1200 grit.You need to do this from preventing swirl from appearing when you painted it.

Before you apply the color you want,eg: yellow,paint a proper primer for a few (2 layers) first.
After that,you can start to paint the color of your choice.

You will see the different.

@OCZ:

Well, it was a sunday, and the sanding was very therapeutic, as my mom would put it. Kinda like washing the dishes, heheh

Wouldn't 1000 / 1200 be too fine, meaning it woudln't do much to the casing?

I did apply a layer of primer first, though I'm still confused as to whether primer will have color? mine came out a shocking brown!!!

All right,to make it easy.From the pictures above,you can see a swirl at the panel side.Well,if you apply some 1k to 1.2k grit,it would remove the swirl and you paint will be so smooth.

Primer is a very light color like white,silver,gray.

@OCZ:

Cool, thanks for the advice. I'll definitely try that when I spray again

So did I get the wrong type of primer or something? You say white, silver, grey. Mine is brown, LOL.

I have one more can of spray. I asked the dude for something that will make it gloss. So he gave me "acrylic laquer, clear color". The primer I used also says acrylic laquer spray, lol!!

Btw, is there any way to remove some of the blue spray that I want to "clean up" from the panel...without removing the yellow base paint?

Cheers,
Kinson

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You're wellcome friend.
Well,brown is not a undercoat / primer.
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You only need primer / undercoat IF you plan to paint color such as (red,blue,yellow,or normal color) depends on the original color of the surface.
You MUST apply primer / undercoat IF you plan to paint color like (metallic,pearl,candy,etc)

Clear coat / transparent paint is not so recommended bro.If will just ruin you paint as it will not really gives a gloss effect.UNLESS you use a great cleat coat that is using a gun-spray paint.

Its kind of hard for you to remove the blue paint without removing the color below it.The paint already sticks to each other.
Why don't you just sand all over again and start fresh.

Nice explanation. Since u r saying tat we only need primer/undercoat if paint color like (metallic,pearl,candy,etc). Does black color need (example like flat black spraying for casing interior)

@OCZ:

Hehehe, thanks for your suggestions I'm getting more and more ideas for my next try and I'm checking out your giant case mod, hehehe.

I don't think I'll remove this, as it's my first "mod" so to speak, I'll keep it for nostalgia I still got the other side to play with anyways.

I wonder why my can said "primer"(as pictured) though...stupid shop. Kena con?

O yeah, the total cost of it all was about RM30, for the 4 cans of paint/primer, and a couple of sheets of sandpaper.

Think I'm gonna call the casing "The Joker", lol, since I'm planning to put different different pictures on it, and it'll look messy (like the Joker), lol

Cheers,
Kinson

Thanx.
All right.Before you want to paint,you need to see the default color of the surface.As for black family,its the darkest color,so it doesn't need any primer.