Custom Console Work (Showing off random paint jobs)

[KeeperofLindblum]

A few months ago I decided to buy and try and fix old video game consoles.
In retrospect... This was a pretty big mistake. I bought a lot, ended up with more than I could possibly do, managed to get many running but others were unfixable (IE all those random consoles and game stuff I gave away on the free thread)
That isn't the point though! Point is to show off some of the work I've done and how terrible I feel at painting (although they don't look THAT bad).
I am also open to tips and suggestions for future work as well as giving out any tips from what I've learned in my experience.

 

Here's a few of the main images to show.

 

My first attempt to paint a SNES! Went really well minus the Eject Button. (Bit of a story there)

 

My second attempt at a SNES paint job! It went better than the first and dubbed... IRON MAN SNES! 8U

 

 

 

Then I painted a few Game Boy and Game Boy Advance shells. (Only have pictures for these two at the moment.)

My personal Game Boy Color with a fancy glass screen and everything!

 

A Game Boy Advance Shell that's part of a "work in progress".

 

 

A Sega Genesis controller I painted on a whim. Too bad the controller doesn't work well...

 

 

And today's latest creation!... A Kingdom Heart's themed NES. (Don't ask why Kingdom Hearts got involved, it just did.)

 

Also features a fancy Purple LED power light!

 

 

Here's the gallery with the rest of the images associated with this project ------> Project Dreamfall (Don't ask why I call it that... I don't know.)

 

Biggest tip I offer now? Be patient with paint. Just because it feels and looks dry doesn't mean you won't leave several fingerprints in it as you attempt to move it. -_-

Edited March 12, 2015 by KeeperofLindblum

[7800fan]

Dang nice paint jobs!!! I may need to do something. How about purple Adventurevision? Or Tutorvision and its icky light blue cart to better match brown and black?

 

A few months ago I decided to buy and try and fix old video game consoles.
In retrospect... This was a pretty big mistake. I bought a lot, ended up with more than I could possibly do, managed to get many running but others were unfixable (IE all those random consoles and game stuff I gave away on the free thread)

 

I know the feeling. PSX/PSOne turns up very often at local Goodwill and Salvation Army for under $5 (I pay up to 10 with original AV cable and controller) and 9 out of 10 times it has bad laser. $5 on eBay and it's working but now I have around 30 working PSX and 6 PSOne. I'll probably sit on these for 20 years when PSX/PSOne becomes rare then maybe it'd be worthwhile to sell. Like how I used to find many Atari 2600 consoles everywhere cheap but now it's rare and eBay seems to go around $50.

[Clint Thompson]

I'm not particularly fond of the gold color in general but that Gensis controller in gold looks great!

[KeeperofLindblum]

Dang nice paint jobs!!! I may need to do something. How about purple Adventurevision? Or Tutorvision and its icky light blue cart to better match brown and black?

 

 

I know the feeling. PSX/PSOne turns up very often at local Goodwill and Salvation Army for under $5 (I pay up to 10 with original AV cable and controller) and 9 out of 10 times it has bad laser. $5 on eBay and it's working but now I have around 30 working PSX and 6 PSOne. I'll probably sit on these for 20 years when PSX/PSOne becomes rare then maybe it'd be worthwhile to sell. Like how I used to find many Atari 2600 consoles everywhere cheap but now it's rare and eBay seems to go around $50.

 

Yeah, I painted a Star Tropics cart black. Thing looks flipping sweeeet. Unfortunately the game didn't ever work... Thankfully only cost me $5.

 

 

 

I'm not particularly fond of the gold color in general but that Gensis controller in gold looks great!

 

Yeah, I painted the controller on a whim and was REALLY surprised at how awesome it came out.

I have enough paint to do so much more... but I've run out of material to actually paint now. XD