Project: Alien Hospital

[_ferry_]

Hehe thanks. Well, if the alien isn't going to make it we could always rename the casemod to "alien autopsy" Let's see if i can make some progress today with building a prothese leg made out of aluminium.

[floriske.nl]

well well, finally I took the step to register at TBCS and one logical thing to do after that is to compliment your great work with a big +rep!

[brinkz0r]

You're right, it's great I've just been waiting for an update

[_ferry_]

well well, finally I took the step to register at TBCS and one logical thing to do after that is to compliment your great work with a big +rep!

Good thing! (to register yourself ) Thanks, good to see your new project at TBCS as well, i'm sure the result is going to be great.

You're right, it's great I've just been waiting for an update

Me too,
But I'm damn to busy at work, each week i work +/-60 hours In the middle of dirt, cold and heat and it takes 4 hours drinving each day.
It's breaking me up When i arrive at home i'm watching my list of daily websites, take a shower and go to bed. Really annoying to work this way.
But december will be a modding month i guess since i told my chief i'm not going to that %&^%^%$ project back in december.

[brinkz0r]

Me too,
But I'm damn to busy at work, each week i work +/-60 hours In the middle of dirt, cold and heat and it takes 4 hours drinving each day.
It's breaking me up When i arrive at home i'm watching my list of daily websites, take a shower and go to bed. Really annoying to work this way.
But december will be a modding month i guess since i told my chief i'm not going to that %&^%^%$ project back in december.

Can imagine that you don't have the energy to get started with the modding. I will be looking forward to december If you get even half the amount of results as tribaloverkills' month off, the amount of work done will be massive

[Scotty]

Holy crap nice work, lovely detail. +Rep

[_ferry_]

Hmm, i had some time left today for modding, but i could have spend it more usefull....

The monitor was already sprayed black since a few weeks. It had a nice smooth finish because i applied 7 thin layers and after each layer i sanded it with k600.

Today i thought it would be nice to have a dark green heartbeat line across the display housing to break the black color.

But then, i removed the masking tape, and the black coat came off. I tried to fix it by smoothen it with sanding, but no, it ain't gonna look good this way.

If it's ^&*%-up i could test a white line with the airbrush anyway. Next to it there has a lot of coat ripped off when i removed the masking tape.

So i sanded all the coat around the 'accident zone' away with k180. Next thing to do is smoothen it with k250 and higher before i can start the painting procces again.

Conclusion:
- Primer doesn't hold on smooth, unsanded, plastic
- Paint holds up well on the sanded edges of the case
- next time: sand all the plastic

Don't think i will add the green line after i'm done with fixing this

[Scotty]

Ouch, i would have thrown it in the bin.

[floriske.nl]

Ouch, that hurts!

But, one thing I learned from setbacks like this: "The result eventually only gets better!"

[Roughhouse]

Have you tried the blue painters tape. I know the adhesive on the painters tape is less aggressive than regular masking tape.