If you want first class spray paint in the UK, you might look into Belton Molotow. If I remember, its a german manufacture, but its true artists color. Bout the best there is in the can world. I've sprayed with their colors in the past, and they're definitely pretty
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Whitlock, its good to see you in the forums! Dying plastic is way cool, I used to do that when I was a kid and built R/C cars. Its a great way to get custom parts that no one else has and they are durable. Krylon is a good spray, but may I suggest you try the dying first.
I'm after durability over colour to be honest. I need something that isn't going to scratch, chip or stick to itself. Some heat resistance too. Dye does sound a good option. Is there any preparation necessary.
You're doing exactly what I've been pondering for a long while. A first gen MacBook is something around 700 bucks (for bare minimum) which is relatively cheap considering the re-sell value of Apple laptops that age. I wanted to buy one and dye it, backlight the keys (single SMT LED per key would work. I'd just need a MacBookAir keyset I'd imagine, but I digress..) max the RAM and HD, and wa-lah! Ultimate MacBook. I ordered 15 boxes of RIT Black and 10 boxes of RIT Red from eBay, plus a shiny (2 year old) MacBook White (2.0Ghz Gen 1.5), 3GB DDR2 and a 200GB 7200RPM SATA drive today! If I end up dying it before you do, I'll post the pictures.
we need a killer guide for this, who wants to be the next interweb star? This is a hugely popular topic of interest for laptop modding with the new casings...
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I have a white MacBook, dyed mahogany... I have the pictures, too...
SIGH, yeah, I really need to get on that mod guide. How are we doing the mod guides these days? Text document with references to the photo names, or can I go ahead and send you an html document which you can open in FF, complete with loading images?
Sweet.. Mahogany sounds like it would be quite nice with the white keyboard/trackpad and white apple.
I've got all of the colors mapped to the areas I'm going to put them, plus I'm going to backlight the ports with red LEDs. I just ordered the SMT LEDs for the keys and the ports
I'm going to be testing all these theories on my iBG4 later today hopefully.