I took this baby: Ripped it apart (as in the picture above) and started cleaning the keys and the top-board, which were just absurdly dirty. When I had all the keys out I had an idea. You can see a can of spraypaint laying next to the keyboard, and I decided to use it, and ended up with this: I'm very happy with the color, the keys look really nice and white now Also thinking of making my current mod this color One question for you guys (and girls, ofcourse): What to do with the currently greyish-blue part? Make it the same color? White? Yellow? Red?
Hmm, I've got a hideously yellowed and stained keyboard here, this would make a nice mini- project for the weekend...
actually, you could do more then one in a weekend... This job was like 10 minutes to take this thing apart and clean the to-be-painted part for spraying (under warm water with dish-washing soap), half an hour of spraying (pauses of 5-10 minutes between layers, had like 5 layers), another hour for cleaning all the keys (just with a general cleaning spray thing and a cloth), 10 hours of waiting for the paint to get tough (so you can do the previous steps for another 6 keyboards in this amount of time) I was busy less than 1,5 hours painting the whole keyboard would take about 2 hours, and 10-15 hours of waiting (depends on the type of paint) think I'll do my mouse tomorrow really looking forward to doing this to my computer (just bought 2 cans of high-quality spraypaint (that colour) for 8 euros )
Heres a before shot of the victim. A 10 year old IBM PS/2 keyboard, heavily stained and yellowed, and in dire need of a paintjob. Has a really nice smooth typing action though, I can type faster on it than any other keyboard I've ever used. Plan is, black blank keys, red body, black cord, red connector on cord.
You can put 2 very light coats of a very light color on the keys and the letters will still show thru. I did this with yellow on the keys once.
wohoo, the good old IBM keyboard Those really are inbreakable. I once had one... Have no idea where it is right now Going to paint my mouse soon... maybe tomorrow the now-blue keyboard types very well, might consider painting everything before the lan next weekend, to get there all-blue
painted my mouse now, turned out even nicer then I could hope for Actually, in real life it looks even better then on this picture, because of the light... IT'S AWESOME I'm glad I got the thumb-pad back on that nicely this mini-mod almost went too perfectly
Some pics of my keyboard during the painting: ^ Stuff laid out in the garage. ^ The red WASD keys, just to be cool. Once those WASD keys have dried ill post some pics of the finished thing, but some of the keys need touchup as I missed some spots on the 500+ surfaces I needed to paint. About 6 keys are too ugly to be let off the hook.
Lmao, I might do that to one of my old keyboards. That is, paint it black/dark grey and paint the main gaming keys red. AWESOME idea!
you could use candy paint to color the keys and still see the letters/symbols. it would look especially cool if it was a black keyboard with white lettering, then only the lettering would be colored. i might have to try this... edit: also, luitvd, you might want to wet-sand your paint with fairly high-grit sandpaper to get rid of the "orange peel" that it looks like you have on your keyboard. it woud make it very glossy
yeah, I know, but you have to wait for like a month to do that for the best result right? I was going to do that hate the orange-peeling look
what paint did you use? if it is automotive paint, just lay it out in the sun for a day, then you're good. this cures it faster.
I typically just sand my crap in 24 hours. Haven't had a problem yet. My keyboard is finished (except for some keys that need touchup.)
I think you sprayed too close to the keys... Or you didn't clean them enaugh... I just painted my remote too check it out: And a shot of all three devices together
So its a painting war now, is it? How could I miss spots by painting too close to the keys? Also, I scrubbed each one individually with warm soapy water and a brush. They were clean enough to do surgery on.
