slaveofconvention
09-05-2009, 12:43 PM
This mod is a little way off, but I like to be prepared so figured I'd stick something up here and ask a couple of opinions....
I mentioned in a different post that my xbox360 DVD drive developed a fault a little while back and stopped playing game disks. I took it apart to 100% identify the drive so I could buy a replacement, and while it was in bits, I gave the whole thing, including the inside of the DVD drive a good clean out with the air compressor, and for some reason, it now works.
Anyway.... after taking it apart and putting it back together (and thereby killing what little warranty was left) I decided to paint/mod the thing once I'm done with Lobo (and possibly K-9 altho I think K-9 will take a while yet)
I've wanted to paint something Renault Liquid Yellow for a while - in fact my plan when I built my current PC was to put it into a Liquid Yellow Silverstone TJ07 but the money ran out and I "settled" for an Antec 900 which I really don't like much and have no intention of modding.
The xbox 360 seems to lend itself very well to a two colour paint scheme and I think the Liquid Yellow along a fairly dark grey metallic will work well - the pic below shows a Renault Megane Sport in the Liquid Yellow, and the alloy wheels are painted in a grey that would work - I've included it to show you the combination...
http://www.slaveofconvention.com/imagestore/liquidyellow.jpg
I want to window and light up the machine and I'm trying to think of what colour lighting will work well with that colour combination. I also plan to replace the LEDs in the power button/ring of lights and will be putting red leds back in there for the error states, but I need to decide on a colour for the power light and the connected lights (the ones which are green when stock) - ironic thing is, I think green will look pretty nice, but I really don't want to leave it stock... Maybe yellow would work :?
Any thoughts/ideas?
I mentioned in a different post that my xbox360 DVD drive developed a fault a little while back and stopped playing game disks. I took it apart to 100% identify the drive so I could buy a replacement, and while it was in bits, I gave the whole thing, including the inside of the DVD drive a good clean out with the air compressor, and for some reason, it now works.
Anyway.... after taking it apart and putting it back together (and thereby killing what little warranty was left) I decided to paint/mod the thing once I'm done with Lobo (and possibly K-9 altho I think K-9 will take a while yet)
I've wanted to paint something Renault Liquid Yellow for a while - in fact my plan when I built my current PC was to put it into a Liquid Yellow Silverstone TJ07 but the money ran out and I "settled" for an Antec 900 which I really don't like much and have no intention of modding.
The xbox 360 seems to lend itself very well to a two colour paint scheme and I think the Liquid Yellow along a fairly dark grey metallic will work well - the pic below shows a Renault Megane Sport in the Liquid Yellow, and the alloy wheels are painted in a grey that would work - I've included it to show you the combination...
http://www.slaveofconvention.com/imagestore/liquidyellow.jpg
I want to window and light up the machine and I'm trying to think of what colour lighting will work well with that colour combination. I also plan to replace the LEDs in the power button/ring of lights and will be putting red leds back in there for the error states, but I need to decide on a colour for the power light and the connected lights (the ones which are green when stock) - ironic thing is, I think green will look pretty nice, but I really don't want to leave it stock... Maybe yellow would work :?
Any thoughts/ideas?