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You probably should have just bought a smash logo decal instead of painting it on yourself, as it looks pretty bad since you weren't able to get clean edges.Hey everyone! Just wanted to post my controller and see what people think, turned out pretty well for a first try and i'm happy with it.
Thanks for the awesome guide !
Sorry to bug you so much but I have a quick question, where do you paint your controllers? Because I was gonna give mine another go but decided to do it in my garage with the slider open or outside this time and I got worried, with all the time it takes to spray paint and let it dry won't bugs land on it? Or other flying seed ****s in general? If a fly lands on the wet paint can't it **** the coat up/ get mummified into your controller? Just an odd concern, maybe it's not a problem I just have no clue lol.
yeah the tape i used for the logo wasn't the best. i'll definitely get decals next time!
i did all the painting just outside my garage and no bugs or anything landed on it! once i had all the coats on though i moved it inside to dry to keep it from dust and whatnot. but you should be fine painting it outside! just keep an eye on it between coats so you can catch anything that might get stuck on it (although it is unlikely)
This ^ and also if there is something on there, DO NOT TRY TO REMOVE WHILE THE PAINT IS DRYING. It never works, and you'll screw everything up.
And in my experience, this doesn't work
Amen
This^^^ If I had currency for online use I would 1000x do it, unfortunately all my money is in cash lol. Have to open a bank account soon so that I won't lose 2k if a fire starts in my room lol, damn that would suck. Also another reason to just buy an already painted one is the time, SO much time is required to make it turn out how you want it. Removing my botched paintjob took like 2 days of my life away that would've been avoided if I just ordered one, well at l got to bond with my brother who helped me remove it, lol. Also I did do the whole paintjob outside because my garage which I travel through with the controller is kinda dirty and I didn't want to walk through to let coats try inside because I was scared of dust or spiderwebs getting in the coats, so for this I had to sit by the controller drying like ALL day after putting down coats to make sure bugs didn't get on it, you may think, why would bugs flock to paint? Well I may wonder that to but THEY DO. I had to stay on bug defense the entire time swatting away flies and ants, honestly ants are really what you have to watch out for especially if you are like me and are stupid enough to do the painting on newspaper on the ground instead of an elevated surface, they go straight for paint for no ****ing reason, it's like what you hear about kids sniffing paint in the 80s lol. I trust your judgement for the 3rd party controller shells and am probably not gonna try it, but one thing I do know is that with many 3rd party controllers buttons do work in 1st party controllers, by this I mean just the piece of plastic so it's not like it really matters that they are kinda low quality, it really matters what specific 3rd party you get but most have buttons identical to regular controllers which is pretty cool if you ask me. Also another thing you can salvage from 3rd party controllers is the cstick, from what I've seen the control sticks in many but not all 3rd party controllers are lower quality, usually heavier and are FAR less durable and rip quickly. But it seems that the csticks in general most of the time are of surprisingly passable quality, they feel decent and are pretty damn durable, not as good as the original but pretty close considering all you need cstick for is flicking in one direction at a time, it doesn't buffet from rough dashdances, wavedashes or willpower DI (when you try oh so hard to DI well and end up jamming the stick to the left or right HARD, lol). Another thing that you can salvage from 3rd party controllers is actually the screws, this may sound pretty ****ing stupid at first thought but if you open your controller frequently even if you are careful unscrewing the screws you are bound to strip the screws just a little bit each time you open/close your controller, so you can replace them with the screws from the 3rd party ****ty controller which not only gives you new screws but also makes it more convenient to open since most 3rd party controllers need Phillips head screwdrivers to open so now you don't need to worry about having a triwing around. Also I may have ****ed up big time with spraying too heavy but I'm gonna have to disagree, I think tape is great to use, but whatevs, to each his own.
Lol thanks for the promotion.
I hate to say it but you're probs gonna mess up the first time, so have 2 controllers ready so you can botch the first one and throw it away and the second one you could do right if you learned enough from the first time. For the triforce you should use decals stickers thingys that someone posted the link to earlier in this thread, they have sticker things with all the stock symbols of the melee maybe brawl cast, you could just put the sticker on where you want it then just spray paint over a red coat with black spray paint (wait a LONG TIME between coats of different colors, wait like 7 hrs if they are 2 different colors.) Do this black coat a few times (2-3 coats of black over the sticker area and where ever else you want black) then use tweezers or some operation like **** to peel off the decal sticker without peeling off the rest of the paint which is going to require you to be VERY CAREFUL. Also you may actually have to use a very thin small sharp knife like an exactoknife to cut the decal sticker from the paint so that you don't peel it but then again this is going to require enormous precision and care. This could be avoided if you just use the black decal over the paint already present and just put your clear coats right over the decal sticker mummifying it into your controller and making it feel smooth as if there were no a sticker since it is actually a really thin sticker. But for you to use the actual black decal and not paint over it and use the mumifying method then you would have to change your colors to make maybe the brown where the black is and black where the brown is, I personally think that would look great either way. The decals I was thinking of that GCS linked earlier are these kind of ones http://www.storenvy.com/stores/112989-shardstore they seem to fit better to your controller design you provided in my opinion. Don't paint your buttons that doesn't work yet (there may be a way soon) it comes off fast and looks like **** in weeks, there is no safe way to paint buttons yet, even HBox's controller which curse probs spent a ton on has peeling button paint, he just doesn't let people see that so that he doesn't put in a bad word for curse and envy controllers but if you look closely you can see the paint chips a bit over time. I actually found a paint which painted buttons a lot better than other paints and GCS is looking into it, I wouldn't really bother to look into it since I don't really care for controller painting much, I did it a few times and now I'm done lol. As for your dual color paints of brown and black I'd say do what GCS said and use painter's tape, there is really no other way to do it well so I don't know what you are asking about that lol. Also just a recommendation do something cool with painters tape on the back too, I don't know what, be creative lol it's your controller! Also if you are not someone who opens your controller much then clean the insides/guts of it while you have it opened along with think really hard and make a decision about whether or not you want to do any controller mods, these mods are all tourney legal of course, I mean you may want to replace the sticks with nunchuck or PS3/4 sticks or you may want to remove your trigger springs if you don't play melee so that it is easier to use the triggers, maybe remove rumble pack to make it lighter, put in LEDs, round your analog stick casing to get better firefox angles, etc. Really just think before you close it back up so that you don't close it only to realize you have to open it again because you forgot to do something, it is a bit of a pain to open and close it constantly.Hey I was wondering if anyone here could give me some guidance as to how to paint my controller like this.I dont know what to do to get the top to be two different colors, should I just try to go the tape route? I can figure out the triforce, but the brown and black is stumping me.
Also I said 7 hours, I forgot about the tape being a factor until I read GCS's post and he's right wait about 24 hours because even if it feels dry tape will take that sh it right off if you put it on before it cures for around a whole day.
you can take out the l and r buttons, you just need a small phillips head screwdriver which you probs already have. You wont have any problems taking them out, i replaced several of my triggers. About painting the buttons tho.... we warned ya, also repainting is a ***** but possible.
Thank you.
Just don't paint too heavy of a coat.. I would recommend some sort of outdoor grade paint made for lawn chairs (even if it doesn't say plastic) and paint during good conditions. You might be ok if you get luckyI know the risks, but who knows? Maybe I'll be lucky and it'll last for a few months before I have to reapply.
GCS still waiting on you testing the flower paint to make painting buttons reliable!
Yo we gotta get a commercial going for this thread with testimonies of people who are satisfied with their results lol.
You need to follow the instructions exactly as they are on the can. It is likely you either (most to least likely):
Don't paint the buttons or sticks. It doesn't work that well. I replaced the buttons and sticks when the paint started ****ing up.
Thats normal. Just clean it off, and wipe off the controller with a wash cloth with some soap to remove oil and dirt after every use to make em last.
Use krylon fusion for everything
Everyone seems to have this misperception that you need to sand the color away. THIS IS NOT NECESSARY. You just need to literally brush over the controller with 400-1000 grit just to make the surface more adherable. The paint type (krylon) is more important.
OK gotcha, thanks. I just finished painting it, but there are some very small bumps in some parts of the controller, possibly air bubbles or just uneven painting. How do I get rid of those to achieve a consistent smoothness? Sorry I can't post links to pictures since I don't have 10 posts.
