Painting Advice

[Macabre]

*adding another important note. I just checked my toy compared to a DC mother board. The board is a bit wider than the toy - you would defiantly have to remove the seats / figures in the toy, and angle the board in (slanted) to make it fit (lots of trimming). Or you could hire a pro to cut the board in half and wire the two halves back together (I'm not that good)...

[Anthony817]

I think I saw these cars back in the day when I was a teen at Gamestop. Nice seeing them again after 10 years.

[Marty]

Thanks macabre that car would be brilliant idea, i've never done a mod before so something like that would be very complicated for a first timer.

I completely understand what your saying with the controller ports, and it never occurred to me about that, but it has given me a very good idea (well i think so anyway), getting like a chrome front piece, make it look like a radiator grill and get some hinges on it, so when you want to play it you can pull down the chrome piece, plug in the controller and play.

Would be kinda cool to take out the orange LED, put in a yellow one, to look like a cabbies light.

[Dingo]

Very cool idea macabre!

As far as painting goes... I would stay away from glossy paint. I tink it always looks really cheep and chintzy when people spray their DC's with glossy paint. Flat paint looks pretty dull too. I prefer to stick with semi-gloss. I have done some black semi-gloss rustolium that looks very close to the way the production black DC looks.

Yellow might take a few coats before it completely covers up really stained controllers. Maybe put some grey primer down first to give yourself a nice, clean, even coloration to paint over.

Just my $0.02.

...getting like a chrome front piece, make it look like a radiator grill and get some hinges on it, so when you want to play it you can pull down the chrome piece, plug in the controller and play.

Would be kinda cool to take out the orange LED, put in a yellow one, to look like a cabbies light.

That is a cool idea! and replacing the LED is not hard at all, even for a beginner.

[comradesnarky]

Thanks macabre that car would be brilliant idea, i've never done a mod before so something like that would be very complicated for a first timer.

I completely understand what your saying with the controller ports, and it never occurred to me about that, but it has given me a very good idea (well i think so anyway), getting like a chrome front piece, make it look like a radiator grill and get some hinges on it, so when you want to play it you can pull down the chrome piece, plug in the controller and play.

Would be kinda cool to take out the orange LED, put in a yellow one, to look like a cabbies light.

You could attach four chrome fans to the outside and make it look like rims

Back to the painting again though, there was some kind of paint that someone was using to paint 360 controllers over at Ben Heck (too lazy to find the thread, thought maybe someone here would recognize it) that was some sort of automotive paint for plastics. It didn't coat the plastic, it sort of dyed it by my understanding. That would probably work out really well so far as looking professional. I don't know how well it would cooperate with stenciling though.

[tosk]

I know the stuff you mean. Its called vynil dye. Guy called Nonfinite uses it to do custom paint jobs on Game Boys (check out his website, its very cool). It really is the best you can get. But its also pricey and I was never able to find it in the uk (its probably called something else. Haven't researched it that much tbh. The auto paint was good enough for me so I never looked into it any further)