>How it was done:
>After the case was finished with its seven or so coats of the
>metallic green Pactra paint, I cured it atop my monitor for several
>days.
Did you put on a opaque undercoat of white or silver? You can usual
get away with two coats of silver and then two coats. You realy need
to give a day to cure between coats.
>Then when the paint was good and hard I covered the lid with a
>high quality masking tape. Using an X-acto knife I cut out the tree
>logo* shape to create a mask.
You could have used airbrushing frisket paper as well. It designed to
creates masks :-)
>There are a few flaws in it, and I will most likely do it again with
>my other 2400 just to get it perfect. One of my staff calls it a
>'20mph paint job'... in other words, fine if you don't look too
>closely.
Take more time on you second lid, like a month. The second lid I did
looks many times better than the first, mainly becuase I took 2
months to complete it instead of 2 days with the previous lid :-)
> For example I filled in the place where a small metal
>rainbow Apple laid in the center of the lid. The filler used was a
>vinyl spackle material that took longer than I could wait to dry
>completely.... even curing over a hot monitor or inside my old Sun
>disk array. It continued to shrink after I began painting and is now
>sort of a sore spot in the upper left branches of the tree. There is
>also a spot where I over-sanded a bit just to the right of the
>printed circuits.
Spakle? You used spakle?
Because you were sandling the lid smooth, you should have filled the
Apple hole with an epoxy. It dosn't shrink as it cures and you can
sand it.
As I said, take your time.
>None of this is visible on the webcam though. I'll try and leave it
>up all day.
I guess you need a 4megapixel web cam (joking) Most of the small
defect in my Duo's lid don't show up on the digital images on my web
page, and not because I PhotoShoped them out :-) Film just dosn't
show small things like that.
I love the logo and it's look on the 'Book. Nice job!
--
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