Re: Show off your Cube!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 6:16 pm
not really cause the paint I used was a universal for plastic or metal it bonded just fine. about the only thing I did was go over the top case section lightly with cloth I have sprayed with non-chlorinated bake cleaner (is practically pure acetone). It lifted a little of the silver on there but not much and only reason I did it was my nephew got a hold of it with sticky and greasy hands.
About the only mistake I made with it is that even though I left it sit for 30-40 hours to dry, And it felt dry and hard it was still a little soft on the top lid and control port plate. So there are some fine scuffs and finger impressions you can see if you look close enough in good lighting. Also because I though it was dry enough I had but the GBA player on. When I needed to take it off a few days later some of the copper paint adhered to the GBA and pealed off the bottom of the cube. So even though it say it's dry in 24 hours and cured in 48 I find it actually need 3-4 days total to dry properly.
Also it has a good gloss to it on it's own, But if you use a little carnauba wax based car polish you get the shine mine has. Just be careful cause I about dropped mine a few time doing a second and 3rd coat of wax after the first couse it makes it slick.
Other then the few paint mishaps it turned out better then I thought and probably is a lot better then the mirror chrome I was thinking of trying to do. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, My local RC shop didn't carry the special mirror chrome paint I was after with out special order. So my next thought initially was to go with the Special Edition Cartridge theme Nintendo does with gold but I didn't care for a lot of the gold paints and I wanted some thing unique that not too many people could of done. In came the hammered finish but again didn't like the look of the Gold version so as I was looking on rust-o-leums site I found the copper and black and here we are.
About the only mistake I made with it is that even though I left it sit for 30-40 hours to dry, And it felt dry and hard it was still a little soft on the top lid and control port plate. So there are some fine scuffs and finger impressions you can see if you look close enough in good lighting. Also because I though it was dry enough I had but the GBA player on. When I needed to take it off a few days later some of the copper paint adhered to the GBA and pealed off the bottom of the cube. So even though it say it's dry in 24 hours and cured in 48 I find it actually need 3-4 days total to dry properly.
Also it has a good gloss to it on it's own, But if you use a little carnauba wax based car polish you get the shine mine has. Just be careful cause I about dropped mine a few time doing a second and 3rd coat of wax after the first couse it makes it slick.
Other then the few paint mishaps it turned out better then I thought and probably is a lot better then the mirror chrome I was thinking of trying to do. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, My local RC shop didn't carry the special mirror chrome paint I was after with out special order. So my next thought initially was to go with the Special Edition Cartridge theme Nintendo does with gold but I didn't care for a lot of the gold paints and I wanted some thing unique that not too many people could of done. In came the hammered finish but again didn't like the look of the Gold version so as I was looking on rust-o-leums site I found the copper and black and here we are.
