a custom respray

does anybody know anywhere were I am able to get a respray done on my alienware m15x ?
I haven't fully decided on a colour as of yet but a dark yellow/mustard colour seems to be my fav so far.
btw I live in the northwest uk.
thankyou.

 

Just do it yourself. Sand the old paint off, cover all ports and the screen with painters tape. Spray the Laptop with a good primer, then choose a good quality paint to spray it. Did the lit of an Dell XFR like this, as long as the paint is good quallity it turns out very durable. It will also save you about $400. I ended up using a textured paint when the old rubberized paint got scratched and peely:



Edit: I also did my friends M11x r2, which I used rubber port covers like these to protect the ports instead of tape and it worked real well: http://www.ebay.com/itm/DiYForce-Du...US_Motherboard_Backplates&hash=item256ca6bc4b

 

I believe Mr. Fox does those type of jobs, you should ask him on a PM.

 

I would recommend you get in touch with brother Fox. .....I believe it's to pull apart yesterday your entire system and then repaint the chassis ....maybe even heat it to make sure the paint gets baked ....but I don't have the full details

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I do recommend stripping it apart for such a job in order to obtain a clean result.
A few of us did so already with pretty good results.

Here are some of the ones i made in the past:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ed-lunar-silver-nvidia-green.html#post7963441

 

can anyone tell what exactly the spray that should do the job? brands?

 

I just so happen to have a dark yellow mod kit lying around...and I'm in the UK.

 

If elflegolas doesn't want that mod kit I might be interested. I'm based in London so postage should be cheap.

 

I was actually answering to the OP batfinks. I've PM'd him and I'll give it maybe 24 hours.

 

I'd kill for the pot of paint, spray, or whatever i need to repaint and leave my "nebula red chassis" as new ^-^
Does that color tone exists? (i.e. Spray ). I mean for the general public. Where could get Nebula red tone if it were possible?
That would be great

 

A pot of nebula red paint from Dell 25ml is $70..... not really he he.

 

i would like to thank widezu69 for the kind offer but as i have mentioned i was after both the base and back cover being in yellow and as tempted as i am, and with the aid of my annoying "know it all father inlaw" i have found a very very local powder coating company that will powder coat my laptop for £20 in whatever colour i wish so i shall be popping down today and have them take alook at it before giving me a timeline on completion.
again thankyou widezu69 for your kind offer. but im sorry to have to say no thankyou.

 

will be getting my covers back tomorrow at 1pm and cannot wait. but i must admit i have stripped my laptop may times but jesus it was a nightmare stripping it to the point for powder coating... hope i never have to do it again. But i still cant wait to put it all back together

 

i had my top cover power coated in solar rain from a place here about 20 miles from where at...... it did not turn out good........ it was actually pretty bad, but im gonna try again soon, with another shop that did my cars valve covers ( and those turned out really nice : ) )

 

Thanks for the info!, but i think its too expensive.... im going to paint with acrylic colour. You won't notice the difference, believe me... ( i was joking too x) )

 

ok got my base and back cover back. yes its yellow brighter than i originally wished but still looks very nice. but it seems the powder coating wasn't perfect and has some slight bubbles in it, which i have taken pictures. i must admit i was disappointed at first when i saw it, but its still alot better than it was before the powder coating, so im happy

 

was the box of celebrations for getting it all back together okay?

 

getting it back together was easy. stripping it apart was the nightmare lol but basically yes

 

Man looks awesome! I have to agree it is slightly too bright a yellow but still its now unique! I'd love to follow in your footsteps and get mine powder coated but it seems too much effort right now.
I'm currently working out how to put in bright LEDs underneath the laptop so it looks like those cool neon lights under modded cars.

 

pictures actually make the yellow look brighter than it actually is to the naked eye, i guess i had the flash on the camera... oh well the colour has grown on me now and i actually really like it more than i thought i would.
its just a shame it bubbled on the base on the sides, but again i took the pictures to show the bubbling which actually makes it look worse than it actually is. what i get using a bloody good camera.
oh well my new bezel is ordered so i can finally get rid of them few slight scratches from the screen cover either thou it wasn't effecting the screen whatsoever but was around the screen on one side (top right) but im damned if im gonna buy a new palmrest just for the rubbers

i like the idea of leds underneath but its something i will not do myself personally. but would love to see it completed once you've done it.