By: Emmanuel Lepage Vallee

Dificulty: Medium

Tools:

-any-

Time estimation: 10 hours + drying

Cost: low

Material:

-Spray paint (color and type of your choice)

-Sand paper 120, 400, 600, 1000 and 1500

-Sandpaper block to have a flat surface for sanding

-Primer paint (spray)

-Varnish (spray)

Pre-requisites: None, but if you want a window, look at the "how to add windows", we will explain how to do it for painting.

--Instructions--

1. Remove from the case:

-Side panels

-Front

-Top

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2. Now, take the sandpaper block and 120 grain sandpaper then sand every part that you removed in the previous step.

3. Repeat step #2 with 400 then with 600 and 1000 paper (around 1 hour of sanding per grain)

*The surface at the beginning is not smooth at all on over 80% of case. For a glossy finish, you need to get an almost perfectly plane surface.

4. Clean every part, remove all dust and paint powder. You can use a rag.

5. Once the surface is clean, shake the primer can and add a thin layer, then wait until it's dry.

*Do not do this inside, because you will poison yourself and because you will scrap everything around you with the spray residues.

6. Paint with the color you choose, don't forgot to shake the can.

*Add only one small layer at a time.

7. Sand the paint with the p1500 paper.

8. Repeat steps #4, #6 and #7 three times.

9. Clean the surface.

10. Apply the last layer of paint.

11. Add varnish, let dry, sand, clean and add some varnish again

-2 layers will protect against time and cleaning

-6 layers will be solid like car paint

End!