Just Painted Laptop

What do you think? Keep in mind it cost me $5 in materials...

  • Great, Love it!

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • Pretty Good

    Votes: 6 50.0%
  • Dont really Like it/Could have done better

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Hate it, Absolutely Hate it

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Total voters
    12

bomberboysk

Active Member
Well i got sick and tired of looking at the scratched up surface of my 5-6 year old Compaq Presario 2500, so today i decided to paint it. It cost be a total of a little under $5 using 96 cent spray paint from walmart and a pack of 400 grit sandpaper(had some 1000 grit to smooth it down a little more). I sprayed the lid black, then red while it was still wet, then a little more black to accent it. After that dried i sprayed it with some clear paint(96 cents also, for some reason the red was $1.12 and the black green and clear were 96 cents) to protect it a little better, but as you can see the paint apparently wasnt 100% dry when i was reassembling it, and it got a big mark on it which i will fix tomorrow probably. Also since its so old, i didnt feel like spending money on another dc jack for the motherboard, so i just soldered wires directly to the motherboard and hooked up up to some quick connect terminals(its not the best work, but i did it in like 10minutes, gonna get a barrel jack if i can). THere is a slight V shape from the first time i painted it today, was gonna do black with green lines, but didnt turn out well and i didnt feel like sanding it down again lol. Also, another bit i needed to add was the camera flash makes it look brighter red... its actually more darker like a maroon almost.

Pictures:

Old pics look like crap, gonna post some new ones without flash tomorrow... dont feel like takin pics at 1am..
Edit 2: Ok, i got out tripod and didnt use flash this time, looks almost like it actually does now;)

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Edit: Wow, apparently the clear was a little soft when i was putting laptop back together, so there are a few permanant fingerprints(well, good thing about using clear is you can just go over it again and you wont be able to see it). And yes, i put clear gloss on the keyboard, makes it nice and shiny:D
 
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laznz1

New Member
sorry but it looks to grotty to me what were you trying to make it look like and what was wrong with the PS if u need to do that!?
 

bomberboysk

Active Member
Ill have to get some pics no flash tomorrow, the jack kept comming off the motherboard, its basically my sitting on couch web browsing machine. It looks pretty sweet in actuality, the pics make it look just bad. Ok, put up another picture, hard to get good pics of it cuz its so glossy, and @ laznz1 i wasnt trying to make it look like anything, just was at walmart, saw that spraypaint was 96 cents for gloss, grabed a couple cans and just thought up a few things, this is what i liked the best, kinda a marron(red and black mixed) background with some "splashes" of red/black.
 
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Michael

Active Member
Ill have to get some pics no flash tomorrow, the jack kept comming off the motherboard, its basically my sitting on couch web browsing machine. It looks pretty sweet in actuality, the pics make it look just bad. *Removes pictures, ill post new ones tomorrow*

It reminds me of the laptop from CSI (the game) for Xbox 360.. I didn't care much for it, but it's not about what we think.

Do you like it? If so, good job :)

-Michael

PS: I saw the pictures when you first posted, but didn't have a chance to reply then.
 

dylan walker

New Member
I really think you should have painted one solid colour instead of having those light sprays of red paint, it would look a lot more professional.
 
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