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Ok, so after wiring the wii up to the car as many of you saw in the video i posted about a month ago, (see bottom of post i'll put it there again for those that never saw XD) AND making an arcade machine out of it (will also post that haha)
I began to play around again, deciding to paint it to match the interior of the car the theme is red and black, it has darkwii red theme installed so i get red and black as the wii menu too. It's a very simple effect and easy to do, but i haven't seen anyone post something like this before on GBAtemp, so hopefully it's a first too!
so here are the pictures of the progress
these pictures were a tester for the whole thing as the wii remote didn't work properly to begin with and certainly didn't work after painting! hahaha:
The controllers were white before the paint, but you all know what white ones look like, plus i never got any pictures before i started on this particular remote, the buttons were sticking because i had no patience, so when i put it back together the paint was not completely dry... when the paint dried the buttons were jammed but, learning from mistakes and trying again proved with patience it can be done well! haha
I ended up just masking off the disc drive and everything other part of the electronics as i couldnt be bothered to take them all off the shell haha but the impatience this time was fine, i waited for everything to dry overnight + a few more hours, put it back together and tested it. All works perfectly, the paint is superb, you cannot feel the black paint lines as there are a few layers of laquer to shiny it up!
As you'll see from the video i'm into modified cars, and the idea to make the paint like this was taken from a custom interior i had seen, though i'm not sure if they'd used this exact method. It was a fun little spare time thing to do
Here are the previous project videos i was talking about too for those of you that are interested...
Thanks to those that support some of these strange ideas that come up
P.S if a mod see's this can they either tell me how to re-format the post so that the pictures are side by side or could they do it for me unless it can't be done of course
I began to play around again, deciding to paint it to match the interior of the car the theme is red and black, it has darkwii red theme installed so i get red and black as the wii menu too. It's a very simple effect and easy to do, but i haven't seen anyone post something like this before on GBAtemp, so hopefully it's a first too!
so here are the pictures of the progress
these pictures were a tester for the whole thing as the wii remote didn't work properly to begin with and certainly didn't work after painting! hahaha:
The controllers were white before the paint, but you all know what white ones look like, plus i never got any pictures before i started on this particular remote, the buttons were sticking because i had no patience, so when i put it back together the paint was not completely dry... when the paint dried the buttons were jammed but, learning from mistakes and trying again proved with patience it can be done well! haha
I ended up just masking off the disc drive and everything other part of the electronics as i couldnt be bothered to take them all off the shell haha but the impatience this time was fine, i waited for everything to dry overnight + a few more hours, put it back together and tested it. All works perfectly, the paint is superb, you cannot feel the black paint lines as there are a few layers of laquer to shiny it up!
As you'll see from the video i'm into modified cars, and the idea to make the paint like this was taken from a custom interior i had seen, though i'm not sure if they'd used this exact method. It was a fun little spare time thing to do
Here are the previous project videos i was talking about too for those of you that are interested...
Thanks to those that support some of these strange ideas that come up
P.S if a mod see's this can they either tell me how to re-format the post so that the pictures are side by side or could they do it for me unless it can't be done of course