I first want to apologize to the esteemed mods if I have put this thread in the wrong place. If I have, please feel free to move it.

I have a very quick question since it involves spray painting. I've been wanting to spray my laptop to give it a nice color and gloss coat but have failed so far. I used plastic model paint but they rub off too easy. Can anyone recommend a particular brand of paint that works? And maybe tips as well to keep the gloss coat from fading?

Thank you.

Thanks for moving the thread to the appropriate section stevan.

Penmarker, you said 3 arrows and samurai brand arr? Know where I can buy? Its not those that get from the hardware shop right? I tried that but the result not so nice la. Many thin layers... I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the tip.

Hehe, just some confession tho... I used the blasting machine in my factory to clean out the old paint.... wah lau so clean you won't believe man... hehehehe. So if anyone wanna remove paint, I recommend use blasting machine if you know anyone who have access to that kind of equipment... best media to use is plastic media with the air pressure at about 25 psi and up as necessary.

This post has been edited by nikolo98: Aug 29 2008, 07:13 PM

Ooo my laptop is some taiwan brand la. I brought back from US one. Brand I think many will not hear before la... its called Averatec. The chassis is pretty much plastic la. In fact, the original paint also came off adi previously and that was what trigerred me to re-paint it to begin with.

Anyway its quite old adi also la, I've had it for I think about 3 years now.

Yeaaa good idea... I'll definitely do that. I got airbrush for gunpla and I'm pretty good at it but somehow very weird when I try to spray using can paint like very hard to control the spray quality. Maybe I not doing as your suggestion that's why look like some alien took a crap on my laptop hahaha.

I'll definitely go hunt for the brands... hopefully the hardware shop near my hse got la.....

By the way, anybody in PJ area wanna help me paint for a fee? Hehehehe.

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Added on August 29, 2008, 9:27 pmyeaa it was originally in the hobby section but stevan transfer here hehe... I was sitting for a bit wondering "where should I put this tread..."

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Added on August 29, 2008, 9:50 pmWell yea I stripped it, blasted it, and re-painted it... I guess now I need to repeat it all again coz the taimya paint wasn't such a good idea afterall....

if you're interested, here's the whole process documented...


http://nikolo98.blogspot.com/2008/04/opera...surrection.html : Taking apart
http://nikolo98.blogspot.com/2008/04/opera...on-phase-2.html : Blasted clean
http://nikolo98.blogspot.com/2008/05/opera...n-phase-25.html : Repainting process
http://nikolo98.blogspot.com/2008/05/opera...on-phase-3.html : Completed painting
http://nikolo98.blogspot.com/2008/05/opera...inal-phase.html : Assembled


This post has been edited by nikolo98: Aug 29 2008, 09:50 PM

I generally go from left to right..... my handedness thing....... why? the spray quality is that bad? I not used to spraying such a wide panel before... I mean you know, gunpla involve small pieces generally.

Ok, I'll have to do that.... Or I can send to a car painting shop and use 2K paint? hahaha I wonder can anot.... maybe spray color like imola orange..... hehe

Dude, there are differrent kinds of blasting as you know la. The media that I used was made of plastic. So that's why I didn't run such a high risk. I think sand will be ok as well depending on the grit of the sand, I strongly suggest the finest grit you can find. My recommendation to do it is to start at a very very low pressure. I don't know how low for sand coz I didn't use sand but I started mine at 20psi and moved up about 5. Max psi I had for plastic was about 25 only. No more.

By the way, I didn't do it myself because I didn't have any experience with blasting. I had a colleague who's darn good at blasting help me do it. If you wanna do I also strongly recommend getting help from somebody who's done the process before. Blasting is like an art apparently, must have a feel for it.

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Added on August 31, 2008, 6:46 pmYea la I agree but you know anywhere can find this kind of service ar? I always wanted to try out some art on the laptop..... my skill not so great prefer to pay a pro to do it......

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Added on August 31, 2008, 10:16 pmAs a matter of fact, it did!!

This post has been edited by nikolo98: Aug 31 2008, 10:16 PM

The paint job unfortunately now like crap already and that would be in a big part thanks to my incredibly lousy painting skillz hahaha... I'll just stick to gunpla.

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Added on September 5, 2008, 4:40 pmDude, thanks for the link. I'll definitely look them up. Hehehe, I'll let everyone know how the details if I choose to go with them.

This post has been edited by nikolo98: Sep 5 2008, 04:40 PM

I agree on that. Better don't take the risk. I suppose you can puncture it but then again with the compressed air rushing out... I think the paint also will "rush" out as well......

Ok as for airbrushing the laptop, anyone got a good design idea? I thought maybe wanna put the whole fire effect thing ala fast and furious... but might be a bit corny...

Hey bro, no problem man. Do take pictures and post them if you want to "operate" on your computer