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So I've been using one of these guys as my travel humi for some time now. You can either hold 6 foam trays plus room for bovida, cutter, lighter, and glue.... or you can stuff it with about 14 five-finger bags.
http://www.calumetphoto.com/item/RM2432/ ![]() There's just one nagging problem that's been driving me nuts. As you can see from the picture, they were built for interlocking and stacking, and they do that really really well... but those damned lines make it impossible to put most stickers on it! (and we all love our stickers around here). So finally with Shack coming up, I figured I should do something about it. Using a sawzall and a Utility knife, I cut and scrapped off all of the plastic ridges, and of course gouging the hell out of the plastic in the process. On to step 2: MMD Squadron Products Green Modeling Putty: http://mfpilot.com/index.php?main_pa...roducts_id=112 I used the green putty to fill in all the gouges and cracks. Once it dries later today, I'll sand it down to a semi smooth finish. End result before sanding: ![]() This is where my hillbilly engineering comes to an end! I haven't a clue what kind of paint and surface prep I should use. Does it need a clear primer first? Spray? Brush? I'm clueless! MOST of the surface area will eventually be occupied by stickers. But in the mean time, I don't want the green putty to wear off on its own without getting sealed up.... and it seems to make sense to seal it with a flat black paint of some kind. Although the case itself unfortunately is not pure black and has some gray color texture to it. But certainly some kinf of black would look better than green! OR HELL, I could get really adventurous and two-tone it, paiting the whole lid win a dark red or dark blue or something. Maybe a dark CA inspired reddish brown ![]() Either way, I need help with to proceed from here!
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WOW! That is a heck of a lot of work to do in the name of stickers!
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I love it. Got no idea what you need to do next, but I can't wait to see!
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I would use the Krylon paint designed for plastic.
http://www.krylon.com/products/fusion_for_plastic/
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hehe, thanks guys
![]() I've had two of these cases for over a year now, and I'm just finally getting around to doing something with one of them. I think I'm a little more adventurous since no matter how much I screw up this one, I have a backup ![]() I'm REALLY thinking about painting the top a really dark rich brown... what do you think? Off to a decent start on the stickers... still need to buy a few, and find a few more. Louie is the only one missing. I might try to pull off an old Habano's SA seal and put that on there too ![]() ![]()
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I'm not sure who makes it but it's paint for plastic. Comes in a normal spray can. Found easily at home depot or Lowes. I use it on plastic computer parts and it's great.
For what your doing, get creative, why the hell not, really. But in the end, to keep her safe and her stickers, I'd do about three coats clear. Add the stickers. And do another three to four coats clear over that. Sand inbetween coats. Good luck. We expect pics when your done, tho I'm sure you already knew that!
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2) so paint it with a few coats, then add a few coats of clear on top to protect the paint from the stickers? 3) if I put the stickers on, then clear coat on top of that, and I sand between coats, won't that muddy the clarity of the stickers? (get the impression I'm NOT a painter by any shape of the imagination ![]() I might have to do the coats on top of the stickers later, once I'm reasonable sure I've got most of them....
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I don't think I can make Shack if it's this year.
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Than I definitely can't make it!
Always next year, right? Good luck Brother.
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Depending on how that green stuff takes, I'd say three would be solid.
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BRILLIANT!!!
If only my 15 stick Herf-a-dor fulla' RP 1992 torpedos hadn't decided it preferred living in Florence, Italy to coming home with me in my suitcase... Then I would still have all of my stickers! And 12 delicious cigars! And a Herf-a-dor! And no reason to make this stupid and pointless post on CigarAsylum!
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![]() ![]() Box after first coat, still looking pretty ugly. Clear coat should help! I would have preferred a brown with a bit more Red in it, but paint selection locally was sparse. ![]() I could only get brown/black/white in the Fusion Plastic paint. so the base coat is brown. The light colored lid on the top will be the second coat. It's a non-plastic paint, so it had to go on a base of plastic paint. I think that will work, I hope ![]() NOW for the big decision.... A) light on the lid, dark on the bottom. B) dark on the lid, light on bottom. C) brown is fugly, paint the whole thing lighter! A few test samples: ![]() ![]() What do you think guys??? I'm a little indecisive on this one!
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you're thinkin C - 100% lighter?
(I almost made the whole damned thing a glossy metallic cherry red, but I decided that might not be very elegant in some situations ![]()
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