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Well, I started with my PC mods about a year ago. Never completed everything because: I ran out of time, and ran out ideas, and ran into the laziness factor.
Well, I've solved 2 out of those 3 which was good enough to get my butt back in gear. I'm modding like crazy and will try to find my original project log based mods. For now, this is what I spent my weekend doing. Bear in mind I haven't drawn a THING in about 15 years let alone any painting.
How I did it. First off, I used paint stripper to remove the original paint. 15 minute soak and scraped most of it off. Then sanded it down and got it ready for spray painting. Used Rustoleum Auto Primer etching paint. Then Rustoleum Metalic Blue paint.
Now, I grabbed the American Accents Crackle effects black top coat can. The can "recommends" you use only their base coats, but what they don't tell you is that you can save a few bucks and use ANY paint as a base coat. They all work just fine. At last I used the Rustoleum Crystal Clear Enamel to give it protection and a glossy shine.
This spray painting got the black with blue lightning background and texture effect.
Now the fun part next was drawing what I wanted. I've been loving the anime series Bleach and figured I'd do something along that.
I used masking tape to completely cover the side panel so I could free hand draw and make as many mistakes as I needed. I'm not as good as I used to be for this kind of stuff so I can't just freehand the paint straight on.
After get the drawing how I liked, I sectioned it up and used an exacto knife to cut just deep enough into the tape to peel off a section of the picture for painting. This saved me on my paints and it made everything easier in the long run. Kind of like a home made paint by numbers project. After everything was painted, I gave it all another couple coats of the Rustoleum Crystal Clear Enamel.
The paints used for the picture were the cheapest Acryllics I could find at Hobby Lobby. Just bought the 68 cents a bottles of "Folk Art" paints. I also picked up a few of the cheapest brushes I could find too. Only picked up white, black, blue, red, yellow, and orange. Then mixed what I needed to get the gradients of color I wanted.
Excuse any bluriness from the pictures I took. The last few shots took me a couple tries with the camera too because the glossy enamel kept reflecting the flash back a little too strong and making everything look bright white.
The image links: (56K'ers Beware, these are full size)
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Image 7
My helpers, least they work for cheap.
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Image 14
Image 15 <---- final picture of the finished project and the best.
Well, I've solved 2 out of those 3 which was good enough to get my butt back in gear. I'm modding like crazy and will try to find my original project log based mods. For now, this is what I spent my weekend doing. Bear in mind I haven't drawn a THING in about 15 years let alone any painting.
How I did it. First off, I used paint stripper to remove the original paint. 15 minute soak and scraped most of it off. Then sanded it down and got it ready for spray painting. Used Rustoleum Auto Primer etching paint. Then Rustoleum Metalic Blue paint.
Now, I grabbed the American Accents Crackle effects black top coat can. The can "recommends" you use only their base coats, but what they don't tell you is that you can save a few bucks and use ANY paint as a base coat. They all work just fine. At last I used the Rustoleum Crystal Clear Enamel to give it protection and a glossy shine.
This spray painting got the black with blue lightning background and texture effect.
Now the fun part next was drawing what I wanted. I've been loving the anime series Bleach and figured I'd do something along that.
I used masking tape to completely cover the side panel so I could free hand draw and make as many mistakes as I needed. I'm not as good as I used to be for this kind of stuff so I can't just freehand the paint straight on.
After get the drawing how I liked, I sectioned it up and used an exacto knife to cut just deep enough into the tape to peel off a section of the picture for painting. This saved me on my paints and it made everything easier in the long run. Kind of like a home made paint by numbers project. After everything was painted, I gave it all another couple coats of the Rustoleum Crystal Clear Enamel.
The paints used for the picture were the cheapest Acryllics I could find at Hobby Lobby. Just bought the 68 cents a bottles of "Folk Art" paints. I also picked up a few of the cheapest brushes I could find too. Only picked up white, black, blue, red, yellow, and orange. Then mixed what I needed to get the gradients of color I wanted.
Excuse any bluriness from the pictures I took. The last few shots took me a couple tries with the camera too because the glossy enamel kept reflecting the flash back a little too strong and making everything look bright white.
The image links: (56K'ers Beware, these are full size)
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5
Image 6
Image 7
My helpers, least they work for cheap.
Image 8
Image 9
Image 10
Image 11
Image 12
Image 13
Image 14
Image 15 <---- final picture of the finished project and the best.
