spackley Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 I have been purchasing G4 and G3 cases off eBay recently and now have 4 G4's and 2 G3's a Quicksilver and a spare set of plastics all bought very cheaply and after finishing this G4 recently.. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=218564 I thought I'd have a painting experiment with the spare plastics set. It's got no innards at the moment and am unsure wether to use these panels on the finished one or to build a newer version with perhaps an i5 series cpu. I think perhaps the latter. All the panels were first rubbed down and sprayed with a plastic primer. It was originally fitted with a Zip Drive but the panel was modded to take a multi card reader Then the final paintjob... Front, top and rear panels are in Anthracite metallic acrylic spray with a couple of coats of clear acrylic lacquer. After several trial and error attempts on the side panels with paint appearing to react with the plastic I mixed and sprayed my own grade of satin black enamel with the Apple badges being removed and sprayed gloss acrylic black with a final 3 coats of clear lacquer I think it looks pretty smart and I am very pleased with it so far, what does everybody else think though? I would be interested in your opinions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
an1r0n Posted July 6, 2010 Share Posted July 6, 2010 Looks great! Great work, I'm collecting cases for now too... will definitely try to make something similar! Is this hackintosh or just case mod? Cheers, an1r0n Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spackley Posted July 6, 2010 Author Share Posted July 6, 2010 Thanx, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who likes it It will be a Hackintosh eventually when it is finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zwarbo Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 Thanks so much for posting the pictures. It looks really good. I also have a case to spray which has just about had the ATX conversion completed and was wondering about which spray to use for the plastics. I am wondering could the paints used by Tamiya RC models on the car plastics be useful? I also want to investigate the idea of removing the original paint from the inside and re-painting, so as to let the plastic outside do the gloss. I realise the frosted parts still need to be painted from the outside though. Has anyone found a good product for stripping the paint that doesn't contaminate the plastic? WD40? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spackley Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 The Tamiya paints may well be suitable for the plastics but you will need quite a lot if you intend to spray it. Regarding paint stripper, you could try Nitromors which is a DIY paint stripper but I'm afraid I don't know if it would attack the plastic. You could try it on a small area that wouldn't be seen to prove it, say behind the Apple logos on the inside of the side panel. Those Apple logos are actually translucent blue plastic sprayed with silver on the back on a G4, so unless the blue/silver combination fits in with your final paint plan they would need to be painted too. If you haven't already removed them you can carefully prise them off by putting a case thumbscrew into the hole at the back and screwing it down until you can slide something under from the front to lever it fully off. Be carefull though as they can be stuck down firmly and you don't want to damage the outside of the side panel. (I saw how to do that on a thread here I think but can't remember where) Good luck with your mod... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuyawker2000 Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 A fantastic job. If I had a work room and could remove the side panel logo I would attempt doing the same but a different color. Thanks for posting your mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXtotheZ Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 that is sic sic sic. let me know if you ever intend to sell one of your cases (modded for hackintosh) I'd be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striggell Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks so much for posting the pictures.It looks really good. I also have a case to spray which has just about had the ATX conversion completed and was wondering about which spray to use for the plastics. I am wondering could the paints used by Tamiya RC models on the car plastics be useful? I also want to investigate the idea of removing the original paint from the inside and re-painting, so as to let the plastic outside do the gloss. I realise the frosted parts still need to be painted from the outside though. Has anyone found a good product for stripping the paint that doesn't contaminate the plastic? WD40? Cheers. I haven't tried them but the Taimya paints should be very good for this use (I've seen them used on other cases before and they are specific plastic paints) I'd stay away from their paints designed for lexan / poly for this use though - I doubt they'd stick to the case for very long. I have been purchasing G4 and G3 cases off eBay recently and now have 4 G4's and 2 G3's a Quicksilver and a spare set of plastics all bought very cheaply and after finishing this G4 recently.. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=218564 I thought I'd have a painting experiment with the spare plastics set. It's got no innards at the moment and am unsure wether to use these panels on the finished one or to build a newer version with perhaps an i5 series cpu. I think perhaps the latter. All the panels were first rubbed down and sprayed with a plastic primer. It was originally fitted with a Zip Drive but the panel was modded to take a multi card reader Then the final paintjob... Front, top and rear panels are in Anthracite metallic acrylic spray with a couple of coats of clear acrylic lacquer. After several trial and error attempts on the side panels with paint appearing to react with the plastic I mixed and sprayed my own grade of satin black enamel with the Apple badges being removed and sprayed gloss acrylic black with a final 3 coats of clear lacquer I think it looks pretty smart and I am very pleased with it so far, what does everybody else think though? I would be interested in your opinions... Nice case - pretty much identical to the G4 I'm doing at the moment (in between doing a G5 which is my main project) only I've painted my handles black too and gone for white apple logos. Good Work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoran Bogunovic Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Man love what you've done there, I was thinking about doing that myself before I found my current case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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