I got some spray paint for Christmas...

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:42 pm

Well It took 2 coats of primer per item, 3 coats of paint and 2-4 coats of light clear coating, a lot of wet sanding and hours of meticulous work over the course of 3 days, and now I'm finally done with it!

. I've been wanting to paint my Xbox for some time now, just to give it that extra pizaz. Its pretty much my first full on project with spray-painting anything, not bad I'd say.

Top view

different top view

From the front

and a shot from the back. (the extra jack is a digital coaxial output I put in)

and the remote

I tried removing the Xbox logo/jewel thingy before I started this project to make it clear but the tutorials I was following included PRYING the thing up, and after a good hour of heating, freezing and prying with a screwdriver, I decided not to risk scratching anything. I eventually got the thing off by using dental floss to saw away at the glue. worked like a charm

I'll be working on making it clear today, maybe adding bright blue LEDs tomorrow.

Now the outside is as 1337n00bh@x0rz as the inside is. I installed a 160gb HDD, a digital coax output, an extra cooling fan and did some other cooling mods.

oh and another thing; i've never had blue boogers before this. kind of a weird thing to experience. Not something you want to see come out of your nose.

Cobain · Post by **Cobain** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:45 pm

haha sweeet

DRL333 · Post by **DRL333** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:46 pm

Pretty, I love blue, that's metallic paint right?

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:56 pm

Snort some Kool-Aid and you'll have blue boogers for a week.

Looks good so far, though I kind of liked the first picture where it looked like the X was black and the other parts were a goldish color.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:41 pm

I like it.
Not to hijack the thread, but that paint looks a lot like the blue I used for my xbox. What kind did you use?

Cell phone picture so everything looks tan for some reason..

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:03 pm

Very cool paint type.

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:46 am

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Jordan wrote:I like it.
Not to hijack the thread, but that paint looks a lot like the blue I used for my xbox. What kind did you use?

I used a metallic blue paint with metal flakes. A little more spendy, but worth the sparkles. Dupli-color "Ocean Blue" with flakes and then some automotive paint for the silver color.

Jordan wrote:Cell phone picture so everything looks tan for some reason..

I can see a digital camera in that picture man, use it!!

I went out and bought some Brasso metal polish and got to work clearing up that jewel. Worked like a charm

Then I hoped on over to Radioshack and bought a 10 dollar 80mm fan with blue LEDs, peeled off the LED strip and now I have myself some lights to work with! Not that many, but I wouldn't want it ultra bright anyways.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:41 am

That looks pretty awesome.

Makes me want to clean up my old box and pimp it out! Hope to see finished pics up soon.

antszy101 · Post by **antszy101** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:44 am

Very very nice
About three or four years ago, I was working on installing controller port LED's for my xbox. Unknown to me, a little drip of solder fell on the motherboard and connected two traces together. BAM-short circuit, and it actually caught fire for around 5 seconds and then went out.
All in all, be careful

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:50 am

antszy101 wrote:Very very nice
About three or four years ago, I was working on installing controller port LED's for my xbox. Unknown to me, a little drip of solder fell on the motherboard and connected two traces together. BAM-short circuit, and it actually caught fire for around 5 seconds and then went out.
All in all, be careful

The good thing is, nowadays, like-new Xboxes only cost about $50 on Ebay or at Gamestop or something, if they have any in stock. I'm considering getting an entirely new one and starting from scratch, seeing as my old one is in...less than perfect condition. >_>

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:15 pm

Is it really worth the time and money to do this? I hardly know anyone that has these anymore.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:20 pm

Cuda wrote:Is it really worth the time and money to do this? I hardly know anyone that has these anymore.

Decent, cheap media center that can play games? I think it'd be worth the effort.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:23 pm

G.I.R. wrote:Decent, cheap media center that can play games? I think it'd be worth the effort.

Assuming it's modded, you can also use it as a PSX, N64, SNES, NES, and I think up to GBA even works. It'd be something cool to have when say...a little cousin comes around who probably won't understand how to play Gears of War or Call of Duty very well.

CabooseJr · Post by **CabooseJr** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:24 pm

I haven't seen any case mods in a while. Pretty nice work.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:15 pm

Scorch wrote:Thanks for the feedback everyone!
Jordan wrote:I like it.
Not to hijack the thread, but that paint looks a lot like the blue I used for my xbox. What kind did you use?
I used a metallic blue paint with metal flakes. A little more spendy, but worth the sparkles. Dupli-color "Ocean Blue" with flakes and then some automotive paint for the silver color.

Ahh.. I used a Rustoleum blue, but it has metal flakes just like that one.

Scorch wrote:
Jordan wrote:Cell phone picture so everything looks tan for some reason..
I can see a digital camera in that picture man, use it!!

Hey.. Shutup.

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:34 pm

antszy101 wrote:Very very nice
About three or four years ago, I was working on installing controller port LED's for my xbox. Unknown to me, a little drip of solder fell on the motherboard and connected two traces together. BAM-short circuit, and it actually caught fire for around 5 seconds and then went out.
All in all, be careful

Damn that sucks.

<moment of silence for the fallen Xbox>
lol

I'm like super-paranoid/meticulous so whenever I'm soldering anything, I put down a cloth over the circuit board and tape over whatever isn't being soldered. I'm super careful.

G.I.R. wrote:
Cuda wrote:Is it really worth the time and money to do this? I hardly know anyone that has these anymore.
Decent, cheap media center that can play games? I think it'd be worth the effort.

50 dollars for an extremely useful piece of electronics? Hell yea! They can do so freaking much. Emulators, Xbox games, movies (HD/5.1), music, pictures, internet browsing, music/video streaming (youtube), Linux...the list goes on.
Thanks again for the comments peeps

I got the jewel cleared up and a hole drilled out. But I think I might have drilled it too big cause now the jewel has nothing to rest on

this is going to be hard to mount.

Anyways, I'm 99% finished. I set the jewel in there and took some pics. Looking sweeeet. I'm really liking how its turning out

Scorch wrote:
Jordan wrote:Cell phone picture so everything looks tan for some reason..
I can see a digital camera in that picture man, use it!!

Hey.. Shutup.[/quote]
lol

MoDFox · Post by **MoDFox** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:44 pm

Ooo that's pretty.

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:19 am

That's hawt

hiheyhello · Post by **hiheyhello** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:30 pm

Ooo thats pretty hawt

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:05 pm

Not sure if its possible, but you should get some blue LEDs for the power button as well.