mods and games and stuff

Steampunk xbox 360, almost done.

2008-12-09T09:08:00.000-08:00

An anniversary/christmas/birthday present for my boyfriend. If you don't know what steampunk is, then google it! It's almost done, just have to add some lights, and the plexiglass. I used some spraypaint that has a hammered finish, and an airbrush on the case. Dremel drill for the cut, obviously. Found the gauges and pipes at a scrap yard, and I used epoxy to stick em on.

afro samurai and Barack Obama

2008-12-09T09:02:00.000-08:00

This mod was a present for a friend.

The first side, it's kuma from AFRO SAMURAI.

Later, I added BARACK OBAMA to the other side.

The GOW2 xbox 360 that won't play GOW2.

2008-12-09T08:59:00.000-08:00

Just realized I never posted the finished GOW2 xbox! This stupid thing is breaking now. The disk drive is dying a slow painful death. It makes horrible scraping noises, and ironically will not run gears of war 2. That is some delicious irony right there hahah.

Flame xbox 360 mod

2008-12-09T08:48:00.000-08:00

This xbox has been sold. I didn't make a huge profit on it or anything, but it's all good! I hope whoever bought it is happy with it and taking good care of it!

the cut

Original paint job. Decided that I didn't like it.

The final paint job!

the lights!

and a nice youtube video for you. :D

tekken xbox 360

2008-12-09T08:39:00.000-08:00

holy crap, I haven't updated this is a while! Ok, some old stuff that I neglected to post before!:

I first used some bondo on the xbox 360 logo to make it an even surface (thats what the pink is). Then I took a dremel to it.

The opposite side. It's actually a multi-layer stencil that I made. 3 layers of spray paint. On top of the paint I used micro pens, and prismacolor gray scale markers.

Masked off the drawing and darkened the background.

Opposite side, black.

completed!!

scrap heap

2008-05-21T21:20:00.000-07:00

ok, not all of these are broken, and this is not all of my scrap heap... some of them I don't really know if they work or not.

there's uhh...

2 large ps2's
1 slim ps2
3 playstations
1 ps1 (slim)
14(?) gameboys
xbox 360 motherboard
2 xbox 360 disk trays (samsung)
sega genesis
couple of 360 faceplates

I <3 donations of random broken stuff :D

gears of war case mod

2008-05-21T18:31:00.000-07:00

I started making a case mod in anticipation of Gears of War 2. I saw this AWESOME case mod and wanted to make my own version for gears of war 2. I didn't want to like directly rip his design off of course, so mine is a bit different.

here it is, the beginning!

It's hard to tell from the photo, but I added some gray on there, just to get things going...

Ok. I used some spray adhesive to keep the red paper stencil of the logo in place as I sprayed black around it. I think it looked kinda cool just like that haha.

I think this was one of the hardest parts. I was trying to get the can to just drip some paint instead of spraying it. It's funny how that works right? When you don't want it to drip then it will drip EVERYWHERE, and when you need it to drip it will be difficult.

I was going to leave it at that, but I thought it looked a little flat. It is gears of war after all, I thought I should roughen it up.

I used a micron pen to draw on the case and my finger to smudge the ink to give a smokey/dirty effect to it. I also used an x-acto knife to make some scratches in it.

I really like the disc tray opening, looks like it got chainsawed from the inside!

I was debating if I should cut out some pieces or not, I just decided to go for it. I used a Dremel to cut out the negative space. It was so hard to control at first, but I got the hang of it eventually haha! I still have to cut out the eyes, and I have a piece of plexiglass waiting to go behind it. Probably going to put some red lights behind it.

That's as far as I got for now!

Gameboy collection

2008-05-21T18:19:00.000-07:00

I have some ridiculous number of gameboys... I think I have 14 or so gameboy colors alone, then several of the other kinds. Here's some random photos and paint jobs:

(this must be an old photo, I don't have the polar white DS anymore)

Metal Gear Dreamcast

2008-05-21T18:13:00.000-07:00

A gift for my boyfriend John. Now before you say anything, YES we are both aware that Metal Gear was never on dreamcast! But, that is what he wanted!

I just did a coat of gray spray paint and then used some markers and microns to draw Solid snake on there. It took forever, but I'm pretty pleased on how it came out.

xbox 360 - koi fish

2008-05-21T17:51:00.000-07:00

Well! This case is one of my favorites so far. It's just the white case from my 360.

I used to have work-in-progress pics for this, but that hard drive kinda died... oh well.

I still remember the process though. I cut out paper in the shape of the fish and taped it down to the case. I used blue spray paint to make a white-blue gradient on the side. I took the paper fish shape off, and used prismacolor markers and micron pens to draw the fish and tree on there.

THE PINKEST DREAMCAST EVER

2008-05-21T17:47:00.000-07:00

I kinda don't like this one now, but I'll post it anyway.

In case you didn't know, pink and ice cream are kinda my thing haha, but I'm still back and forth on the way it turned out. Seemed like a good idea at the time!

xbox 360- clear pink case mod

2008-05-21T17:40:00.000-07:00

I was kind of hesitant to mod my beloved xbox 360. I was sure that I was going to break it. I ordered the case online, I think it was like $50 with shipping. It took me SO LONG to open the case! I actually forgot to put all of the screws back when I was closing it too... oh well it's been working fine. It was a huge learning experience at least haha.

To this day the LED lights make me smile when I turn it on. After this, I referred to my 360 as "Mr.Pinky".

My first custom paint job

2008-05-21T13:26:00.000-07:00

August 2006

This was my first custom paint job that started this whole thing. It's still my most popular piece on my deviantart.

I bought it from some random guy. I t was $5 for the system, 1 controller, and a few scratched up games. I still haven't tested the system out, so I'm not sure if it works.

I used my brand new airbrush to do a red coat, then just doodled away with a sharpie.