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[Gleix]

I hadn't done any painting in a long time, mostly due to the cold weather, but upon getting back into it I realized how much of a difference it makes when putting together an instrument... It gives it so much more character.  Here are a few favorites I've done recently:

(green keys fluoresce in blacklight)



Simply changing the keys can change the entire look of a keyboard:


Old favorite:


I'd love to see some paint jobs anybody else here feels like sharing!

[SineHacker]

do you take the keyboards apart entirely to get those details?

[Circuitbenders]

glow in the dark HR16!

[the_zombiest]

They're some very purty paint jobs.

Here's my 'ugly-by-comparison' DD6

[noystoise]

I hadn't done any painting in a long time, mostly due to the cold weather

i know what you mean, i painted two keyboards yesterday. both of them turned out relatively bad. i blame the cold and the humidity. ironically, when it is warm and sunny here i dont spend a lot of time circuit bending. here are the keyboards, the pt-100 isnt finished obviously. its kind of hard to see the true quality in these pictures. the light is bad in here.




btw, that glowing drum machine is cool. i painted a keyboard with that glow paint some years ago but it turned out pretty bad. the paint dried all rough and transparent. i didnt realize that it was supposed to be transparent until i had already used the whole can. my friend recently sent me a box of thermochromatic paints. i havent tried them yet because they are super toxic. someday maybe.

[Circuitbenders]

some kind of scaling down photos might be useful here 

[goldenbaby]

breakbeat, nice painting!  Especially the first few, they seem to have a somewhat 80s style to them.  Delish!

Once I make something worth the effort of painting, I shall do so.  Are you guys using spray paint 99% of time, or what?

[3rdness]

I just got into painting stuff pretty recently.  It makes a HUGE difference!

Way more fun to play freaky looking toys.

I know i posted pics of this casio elsewhere, but it looks so sick....

I get a cool stenciled texture from using some crate and barrel perforated packing paper as a mask.

[Circuitbenders]

btw, that glowing drum machine is cool. i painted a keyboard with that glow paint some years ago but it turned out pretty bad. the paint dried all rough and transparent. i didnt realize that it was supposed to be transparent until i had already used the whole can. my friend recently sent me a box of thermochromatic paints. i havent tried them yet because they are super toxic. someday maybe.

I found it worked best with a white undercoat and several thin layers of glow spray paint. If you try and put on a completely opaque layer in one go it goes a bit lumpy and wierd.

[Gleix]

Reviving this topic since I've something to share, and maybe other people do too by now!



The Casio KA-2 is pretty ugly by itself... not sure why they made it at all, especially as a "rare" type of SA-2... Red keyboard with yellow buttons and slider just ... looks so god awful.  I think this looks pretty awesome though. The whole bottom half is black now to add contrast..

[hoffy]

Wow, these machines look awesome. 'Specially that casio above...

Just a quick question, sorry to go off topic- where do I get myself one of them Sesame street all-star band keyboards? I've been wanting one since i saw the schematics on getlofi, and i can't find one online anywhere.

Cheers guys

[phantompowers]

I made this out of a toy laser gun, a rape alarm and a push bike back light. Along with a piece of MDF I got out of a skip. I used PVA paint for the finish.

[Circuitbenders]

That one was kind of an accident. I'd sprayed it silver but then decided i didn't like it so tried to spray it black, except the can of black paint had something clogging up the nozzle so it came out in splatters......... which was nice 

[mr ibrahiem]

nice I wish i was that good at paint my instrumens but not so good iam so i put other stuff on them like bits of costume jewelry and other tactile things  any way ia get off track a bit ......all of you are done good paintjobs

[MAGTIG]

I like to draw on my keyboards with markers of various kinds, I was even thinking I'd start painting on them with acrylics, but obviously they need sealant. I have some alcohol based fixative for oil pastels, but something tells me that's not really the right stuff. What do you guys use?