First Gameboy Paint Job

Today is the big day, my two week-long project has finally reached completion, I have successfully painted a Gameboy color.

It was quite a task for me, it involved three different layers of painting.

I started with just a regular kiwi green Gameboy, however it was lacking a battery cover.



The first layer was just a base coat of white; so I just taped off the screen, front and back, as well as the battery contacts on the back shell of the Gameboy.





The painting went pretty well, I used Testors spray enamel model paint, the paint adhered nicely to the plastic shell of the Gameboy.









Now I taped off designs on the front and back of the Gameboy.

I went with a two stripe design on the top plate, and a jagged "tiger stripe" design on the bottom.







For the blue design I used three light coats of paint, in succession, this seemed to be a pretty effective painting strategy.
It produced a relatively even finish, and applied well to the plastic surface.

The final Gameboy turned out pretty sweet.





Hopefully in the coming weeks I can refine my technique and create a red colored counterpart.

Inventory of coming projects

Well, I suppose I should talk a little bit about projects in the near future.
In terms of pixel art, I am trying to get up some gumption and either complete my beach piece, or move on to some isometric buildings.

On the 8-bit gameboy modding side of things, I am currently in possession of a spare gameboy advance, and sometime in the near future I'm going to try and give it a new paint job.
It looks like the back-lighting I have been wanting to do, on some old gameboy colors I have, is going to have to wait until I can procure a spare GBA SP, so I can just take the backlight panel from that.

So this coming week you can probably expect some pictures, musings, and general adjustment to blogging.