>>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?
Nope, just sanded the daylights out of the plastic and started with green.
>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.
Every coat had a full day to cure... lying in front of
'coffeetable.forest.net' which is my old Sun MassStorage array. Fired
up and blowing hot air created by 3 full trays of 5 1/4" Full Height
Drives. =)
<http://www.rackhenge.net/images/coffeetable.jpeg>
>
>>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 :-)
But I wanted a *thick* mask - to have raised edges around it... so I
could sand them down for the halo effect. Thick of course is a
relative term when you are talking paint...
>
>>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 :-)
I was rushed to have it done in time for MacWorld SF... where it
acted as geek-bait in our booth. =)
The lid was done between the week after xmas up until the night
before I flew to SF. That was still about 10 days of work... but next
time I will take the time to do it perfect. I look at this one as a
prototype.
...of course Jobs upstaged me with an even cooler powerbook the
second day of the expo! If they get it down to a reasonable size I
may have to change my priorities. =)
>>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?
Well not really 'spackle' per se... just some vinyl epoxy filler
material. I used the term to indicate it's 'hole filling' task. It
*is* the right stuff, I just didn't give it enough time to set before
I sanded it down flat.
I left the lid for last and payed for it. I knew it would be the
hardest part, so I wanted have the leeway to learn a bit in the rest
of the case first. Oh well. As I said it was a prototype. Now I
*know* how to do it for the 'finished product.'
>I love the logo and it's look on the 'Book. Nice job!
Thanks!
...and thanks for the advice - both during and after the project.
--chuck goolsbee
geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa <http://www.forest.net>
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