Jessie's Gumdrop - Day 04
A small update for today...
Early on I had considered deriviting the case for painting, but then for some reason I decided it wasnt necessary. Then manyak mentioned it, and suddenly it seemed the right thing to do, as it will make priming/painting easier, and since each piece will be painted separately it will look way better when its done, instead of half-assed. I have decided to scrap the two-tone idea for certain parts, so now the doors and lid will be Gumdrop on all sides, and the chasis and drive cages will be black. That will simplify the painting prep and eliminate some potential headaches, but will still look as good asthetically, imho.
Anyway, some pics from earlier
Derivited case
apparently a common phenomenon for the rivet heads to remain on the drill bit after youve bored them out - not only was this new to me, but I just saw
Repo xHassassin post the same exact thing in his worklog LOL
now that the case is fully apart I could get in with the finger attachment and finish up the sanding prep with 240
came across a sticker on the bottom of the case yesterday when I was sanding, but I left it there to remove later. today I put a couple drops of Arcti-Clean 1 citrus cleaner on it and let it sit a couple mins to emulsify. Then I used some 91% IA and a paper towel to get rid of the glue residue. sanded over the area, you'll never know it was there
forgot to take the after pic
sanded the drive cage that was derivited, and as I write this I cant recall if I sanded the smaller hdd cage that is removeable and hangs from this cage...
... maybe Ill just remove that from the case altogether. I only need one dvd bay, so I can get a rail kit for the hdd and put it in this cage, and be done - sounds like a plan
vanity shot of the parts after sanding
the door panels were off to the side during the photo.
The next step will be to degrease/clean all the parts like insane, and sand by hand the plastic bezel with some 400, I am debating if I should do the inside of it or not. I'll figure it out soon I guess, it depends on if any of it can be seen thru the case window, which I think it can. Hmm. I guess Ill be sanding the whole thing then... great
Once thats done its prime-time. Stay tuned, and thanks for reading
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